Republican Assembly Members Jim Silva and Diane Harkey
Does Assemblyman Jim Silva know anything about the “Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media?” I doubt it, but the lame Republican has been appointed Vice Chair of that Assembly Committee, according to the Sacramento Bee. Silva is a former teacher and a past O.C. Supervisor. He voted for both the county union worker pension spike and the ill-fated O.C. PLA.
Other strange committee assignments doled out to Republicans include:
- Jeff Miller was appointed to the Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials committee. Are you kidding? Since when do Republicans care about the environment?
- Diane Harkey was appointed vice chair of the Housing and Development committee. What a joke! Republicans don’t care about housing…but I am sure Harkey will be trying to garner checks from developers.
- Van Tran is now vice chair of the Judiciary committee. Are you kidding? Wasn’t his wife indicted a few years ago?
- Here is a funny one, Chuck DeVore was assigned to the Revenue and Taxation committee. He will be voting no on everything. They should just put a “no” in front of him. Unless they come up with a tax on gays, in which case I am sure he will be happy to vote “yes.”
- Mike Duvall, of Yorba Linda, was appointed to “Utilities and Commerce.” Didn’t a bunch of homes burn down in that area because their lame water district screwed up and didn’t maintain water pressure? Does anyone think Duvall will actually hold them accountable?
As for Democratic Assemblyman Jose Solorio, who represents the 69th Assembly District, he will be chairing the Public Safety committee. His co-chair, Curt Hagman, is as big as about three Jose Solorios… I wonder if he will be telling Jose to “Get in my belly!”
I mean really it doesn’t matter who got assigned to what committee since you think they are basically all a bunch of idiots. Basically you think no republican should get any assignment too bad it doesn’t work that way huh.
Em,
Do you really think that these people are the best and brightest among us? Really?
Silva, for example, is such a ding dong that he is sponsored by Hostess!
em way to hit a home run on art . anyone for this job with a R next to them is a idiot in his mind . in his mind the REPS cant hold any offices because they are anti gay . anti immigrant ( only illegal A WORD THAT DOSE NOT COME OUT FROM HIS MOUTH .
Art,
What you are seeing is the unintended negative effects of term limits. The term limits that limit legislators to six years in the assembly and 8 years in the senate produces a new crop of inexperienced legislators very election that have no real world experience in these areas and thus the inablility for assemly members and senators to come to consensus aside from partisan ideological mindsets. Thats how we get the gridlock we have today.
The term limits issue should be revisited and either done away with or the terms extended.
The whole bunch in Sacramento are waiting to see what the feds will bail them out with before they do anything with this year’s state budget. What do you want to bet they use it as collateral to borrow against to make ends meet on the budget just like they did last year and the year before that and the year before that. Who knew that Republicans would be so big on borrowing? (Hint – those of us who knew that the no tax pledge was unworkable)
Paul,
Good point. I had not thought of that. Then again, while term limits do result in a lot of freshmen in Sacramento, the fact is the older lawmakers and the newbies are ALL a bunch of thieving bastards!
Try to compare these folks to our Founding Fathers. No comparison. I have never seen such a pack of self-serving, greedy, and sometimes insane people. That they are in charge of our state is just plain scary.
A closer look at our revered foundling flubbers would perhaps reveal the same motivations- self-serving, greedy, and sometimes insane people. History is a cruel mistress.