Major Proposition 11 Supporter Paying To Force Californians Into the Republican Party

So they say that Proposition 11 is going to "clean up" California and make our legislature work.

But, most of the supporters are big spending Republicans from across the nation.

And now we find that California's Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is one of the chief supporters of Proposition 11 according to LAist.

But wait, is that the same Steve Poizner who is messed up in the Republican voter registration fraud?

Why yes it is!

See Countdown report on Mark Jacoby and Young Political Majors below.  

It includes  a cameo of Mr. Poizner along with the information that the McCain California Campaign Co-chair has been paying Mr. Jacoby's enterprise $5 for each person slammed into the Republican party.  If you think it might be another "Steve Poizner" you can check out the California Insurance Department site photo.  (Twins? Both named Steve?  I doubt it.)

Poizner is also dogged by well documented allegations that, though he claimed not to have accepted insurance company money before or during his campaign for the insurance commissioner post, he actually just had it hidden better than his Republican predecessors.    See California Progress Report on the commissioner and the insurance companies.

Now this kind of political sleaze may be common, but it's hard to dig up the facts on it. So We have smoke and flame.  I'd say we have definite evidence of fire.  And that fire is dirty campaign tactics from one of the principle supporters of a measure that supposedly only looks like it's a gimmick to reign in the popular legislative majority of the California legislature.  To give an analogy you could say, "He may look like a crook, but he's selling selling semi-automatics to the gangs, and he claims that will help the police."

So you figure it out.

I'm voting no on Proposition 11 because it has no provision for electoral control on those who chosse the people selected for the 14 member commission who would be put in charge of reshaping California's entire legislature.

I'm also voting against Proposition 11 because it is financially supported mostly by wealthy Republicans from across the nation whose own hands are not clean.

I'm voting against Proposition 11 because one of the agendas that Governor Schwarzenegger had for coming into office was to cripple the power of the large Democratic majority in our state.  In fact, given the fact that he has made a pretty bad mess in California, I'd say it's the only one he's gotten close to achieving.  I'll be happy to stand in his way in that effort.