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RECALL MALDONADO.COM

California's economy just got terminated with a massive $15 Billion Tax Increase...thanks to the critical vote of Senator Abel Maldonado.

It's not the first time Abel has sold his Party, his Constituents, and his State up the river. Join us in the fight to recall Abel Maldonado and make sure he never holds office again in the State of California.

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It's time to raise some Cain on Abel!



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Biography
Senator Abel Maldonado is the oldest son of immigrant field workers. Like many other immigrants, his father came to this country with little more than the shirt on his back. Abel's father believed that through hard work, his family could share the American Dream. As a child, Abel worked in the fields picking strawberries alongside his father to help support the family. The Maldonado family is a family of sacrifice, saving, planning, and investing for the future. After graduating from Santa Maria High School, Abel attended CSU Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, where he majored in Crop Science. Maldonado took the ideas he learned in college back to the small family farm. Because of his family's dedication and commitment to hard work, Abel Maldonado has seen that small farm grow from a half acre of strawberries into a farm that now works over 6,000 acres and employs over 250 people and ships produce all over the world.

Abel first ran for office because in 1994, the family farm applied for a building permit to erect a new 35,000 square foot cooling facility. After months of wading through the city's bureaucracy, he grew disillusioned with the lack of customer service that government had provided him, and he decided to run for City Council. So at the age of 26 Abel ran and was elected to the Santa Maria City Council. Two years later, he was elected Mayor by defeating the incumbent and a former Mayor. After guiding the city out of a financial crisis, Maldonado took his leadership style to Sacramento for the first time in 1998 when he was elected to the State Assembly. In the State Assembly, he made a commitment to his constituents to represent them to the best of his ability. He did so by priding himself on serving their needs before anything else. During his Assembly tenure Abel was named Hero of the Taxpayer by the Americans for Tax Reform, led the charge to see seat belts in school busses, worked with Gov. Schwarzenegger to reform the antiquated California Workers Compensation System and worked to enact legislation to raise academic performance in our schools just to name a few of his many accomplishments.

Now as the State Senator for the 15 th District, Abel is returning to Sacramento and is making the same commitment. During his campaign, Abel made very simple promises, “I will never forget where I come from, I will never forget whose money government spends - it's the people's money and I will never let the people down.â€

IT’S ON! REVOLT, RECALL & REPEAL!



Represents: Counties of Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Luis Obispo, the southeast portion of Santa Clara County and the northern portion of Santa Barbara County

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Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Thursday, February 19, 2009


But critics, including party officials on both sides, say Maldonado - who is being targeted by conservative Republicans as a sell-out for going along with Democratic legislators on the budget - is aiming to advance his own political career. That's because - with Republicans vowing to get revenge on Maldonado for aiding Democrats - his political future might rest on his ability to attract support from independents and Democrats.

Indeed, within hours of Maldonado's success, GOP consultant Matt Cunningham of Orange County - angered about the Republican's pivotal role in passing the primary measure and on the budget - set up a fast-growing Facebook group: "Never Elect Abel Maldonado to Anything, Ever Again."

Maldonado's proposed primary system is "purely self-interest on his part," said Cunningham, whose Facebook page urges "eternal opposition" to any plans by Maldonado to run again for state office. "He has no prayer of advancing (the new primary)," so he is taking advantage of this crisis. And the rest of the taxpayers are paying $13.5 billion for it in new taxes for it."

Party officials also say the effort will not boost democracy but will shackle it.

"It's a way to outlaw third parties," said Bob Mulholland, campaign chair of the state Democratic Party, who said government should not be involved in an elective system that mandates that party labels be removed in primaries. "It's a terrible system," one which Americans interested in promoting democracy would never recommend for, say, Iraq or Afghanistan, he said.

Tom Del Beccaro, the vice chairman of the state GOP - and who disagrees with Mulholland on virtually every other issue facing the state - was equally incensed.

"The two-party system is as old as politics itself. It's human nature to have rivalries, politically, in sport, and you can't legislate around human nature," he said. "That's called social experimentation - and it doesn't work."

Ron Nehring, chairman of the state GOP, said the measure will "lead to further polarization."

Without a Republican or Democratic designated candidate on primary ballots, that means "in some areas, like San Francisco, you'll never, never see a Republican candidate on the general election or November ballot - meaning the Republican perspective is missing from the dialogue," he said. "And in parts of Orange County, Inland Empire ... you will never have a Democrat on the ballot," he said. "Is that a healthy thing? No, it's not."

He said California Republicans will take up the matter at their state party convention in Sacramento this weekend, where they will debate - and vote - to support or reject Maldonado's amendment.

But with California's budget crisis fresh in voters' minds, and 2010 gubernatorial contests already gearing up, political observers say voters may be in no mood to listen to partisans on what is best for their state.

Some suggest the introduction of a "top two" primary system could shake up a political system badly in need of an influx of new ideas and energy. But whether the "top two" model, which is similar to one passed in Washington state in 2004 by 60 percent of the voters, is the answer is not clear, others say.

What is clear: "The battle lines are drawn," said O'Connor.

Though party officials on both sides are eviscerating Maldonado, "He will have as many people saying what a statesman he was ... the only one who didn't ask for anything personally for his district" in the budget battle - but who may appear to many to be looking for solutions for the divided state," O'Connor said.

"With legislative approval ratings (down) and all the granular detail about what voters think of elected officials, it's all about money and whether the voters will listen to same old same old," she said. "I think voters will want things to work."


E-mail Carla Marinucci at cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1613T8.DTL

Those Damn Irish Again ?
I knew they would be Trouble .

THE SELLOUT REPUBLICAN . . . . . In 2005, Maldonado declared his candidacy for the office of California State Controller after Controller Steve Westly decided to run for Governor. Maldonado was defeated in the June 6, 2006 Republican primary by Tony Strickland .Following his loss, Maldonado publicly criticized Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for not supporting his campaign more forcefully, suggesting that Schwarzenegger doesn't care about Hispanics, when he told the Los Angeles Times that "when Schwarzenegger needs Latinos, Latinos are always there for him. When Latinos need him, the answer's been no.

CALIFORNIA NOW HAS THE HIGHEST TAX STRUCTURE IN THE NATION: The one sell-out Republican is a Latino....... You will have to draw your own conclusions from that one ..............

N C TIMES . COM

Originally Posted by airdale

Those Damn Irish Again ?
I knew they would be Trouble .

February 19, 2009

Recall Abel Maldonado -- the weasel who just empowered the democrats to spend California into bankruptcy

Abel Maldonado’s Mexican sharecropper anti-tax rhetoric before Hispanics at the Republican Convention …

Listen to him claim:

“We should never become a nation of sharecroppers for the government.â€

Originally Posted by Skip

THE SELLOUT REPUBLICAN . . . . . In 2005, Maldonado declared his candidacy for the office of California State Controller after Controller Steve Westly decided to run for Governor. Maldonado was defeated in the June 6, 2006 Republican primary by Tony Strickland .Following his loss, Maldonado publicly criticized Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for not supporting his campaign more forcefully, suggesting that Schwarzenegger doesn't care about Hispanics, when he told the Los Angeles Times that "when Schwarzenegger needs Latinos, Latinos are always there for him. When Latinos need him, the answer's been no.

CALIFORNIA NOW HAS THE HIGHEST TAX STRUCTURE IN THE NATION: The one sell-out Republican is a Latino....... You will have to draw your own conclusions from that one ..............

N C TIMES . COM

And why does that matter? What about all the White Republicans who voted for the stimulus or Black Republicans.... oh wait.... are there Black Republicans??

THE REVOLT IS ON!



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