090503 Cardiff
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Goodness. I saw this link in my stats-- (http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/keys?q=%22Chris+Ashley%22+weblogs)-- I've been referenced to death.
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I listened to the fuzzy flickering sound of the gubernatorial candidates debate on the radio Wednesday as I drove winding, tree-lined, mountain-blocked roads home from Occidental. Something is up with my car radio's reception, and even a strong signal like KQED's gets blocked over a distance my hills and such. So I didn't hear absolutely everything. It seemed like a very efficiently run event. The moderator, whose name escapes me, really kept it going and everyone respected the time limits (I just saw in the transcripts that it was Randy Shandobil from KTVU- good job).
Cruz Bustamante sounded impatient and humorless; I didn't hear anything wonderful from him (check this out). Arianna Huffington sounded like Zza Zza with brains; I liked her. Tom McClintock didn't sound horrible, but my ears glaze over when Republicans talk like Republicans. Peter Ueberroth sounded a little unprepared, but I appreciated that he said he's not a politician, is committed to dealing with the budget, and will not run again. Over and over again Peter Camejo said the things I wanted to hear and that are important to me. I voted for him in the last election, and I'm going to do it again. At first I voted for him because two parties aren't enough. This time I'm voting for Camejo because I like what he said and because I'm Green.
The entire transcript of the debate is available- nice.
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Uh, like, duh?
<blockqoute>'Big Government' Getting Bigger Under Bush
(Reuters) - The era of big government, if it ever went away, has returned full-throttle under President Bush, who came to office championing "conservative ideas" as an alternative. A report released on Friday by the Brookings Institution think tank and New York University said the "true size" of the federal work force -- which includes employees for federal contractors and grant recipients -- grew by more than one million, to 12.1 million, from October 1999 to October 2002. </blockqoute>
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