Meet The Devores, Etc.

Well, I had the opportunity to go to a free "meet and greet" set up for 70th district assemblyman (south OC) and California senate candidate, 2010, Chuck Devore, and Pat Bates, City Councilwoman for the 5th district (South OC), in the Lake Forest area, the other day.

Chuck, a tall, nothing special looking guy, 40ish, walked in the room on time, with his wife, Diane, a tall, average looking, glasses wearing woman with short cropped, dark brown hair approximately late 30's sporting expensive garments and accessories and an armload of "Chuck Devore for senator" bumper stickers.

Basically, Chuck took this opportunity to campaign for the senator seat as he tries to take it from Barbara Boxer, one of the botoxed zombies on the hill.

He spoke that Boxer, since elected in 1982, has gotten 3 bills passed, oh, that's out of 400, is a proponent of amnesty, is for keeping the water shut down in the Central Valley so that the Delta smelt might live and will not go for a salary decrease for her or her staff.

When he was asked, by me, what the first issue he would work on was, if he was elected, his answer was that he wanted to see the constitution upheld as he didn't feel as though it was. Well, that's just peachy, Devore, but that's not what I asked. Unfortunately, he was on to the next question before I could say that.

It's not really clear, nor was this discussed- what it is Chuck does in his CURRENT position as assemblyman? Seems he just campaigns for senate 24/7.
Makes me feel all warm and safe to know that I may not have any representation in my district.

When asked if he was the man for the job, he just didn't answer that, he rattled off some sort of inchoherent political speak - "the altruism and oligopoly of the 21st century will make me work hard for my constituents" and went on to the next question.

One thing that was clear to me, based on what he said that night, he is afraid to say anything or be seen anyplace that may seem controversial or upset any applecarts so he won't piss anyone off and not get their vote. This may explain why he didn't show to John and Ken's Tax rally in Fullerton back in March. Ahh-chaaa.

And not much to say about Pat Bates, other than when she finally did arrive, 45 minutes late without any type of explanation or remorse, there stood in front of me on the podium, the crypt keeper's mother -approximately 70 years oooold, wrinkled neck, botoxed eyes, and a wig with shoulder length light brown hair-styled like a 35 year old.
When I asked her, nicely, what exactly she did all day, and, as the person in charge looked mortified at the question, her answer to me was, meetings all day.
I almost pulled off my sneaker to throw at her, but realized shoe throwing at a politician has been done before.

All in all, I wasn't that impressed by Devore, I think he's just another wimp, but my bellybutton lint would do a better job than Boxer.

Gavin Smarmy Newsome Drops Out of CA Governor's Race

No hints were given for months, even up to last week's all-day meetup with ABC. Though he did drop a few "Oh balancing political life with personal demons priorities is sooooo difficult" line a few times, at no point was he backing down on his run for CA governor. Well the reality is Jerry Brown has seven times the capitol to finance an aggressive run for office. And under that pressure, Newsome, an admitted alcoholic, finally came to his senses.

Read more here

Halloween-Caught In the Recession

While the economy is recovering, we still haven't recovered, in fact we are still broke ass poor, at least judging by this Halloween.

A survey taken by government vor-kers (cause they dont have anything else to do) report that there will be fewer parties, fewer haunted houses, less candy, fewer decorations and more handmade and reused costumes.

Especially hit the hardest on Halloween, are the 18-to-24-year-old crowd. (sniff,sniff)

But here's good news, we're still carving pumpkins.(yea! wonder if there's a job out there for this specialty).
Evidently, the government is saying there is something like 93,000 acres of land devoted to pumpkin growing which is up from around 26,000 acres in 2007, and most of those pumpkins are destined to become smiling ass jack-o'-lanterns.

Costumes that appear to be popular this year include: Transformers, Harry Potters, superheroes and zombies as well as vampires, princesses, police officers and pirates (Makes me think of Mike Duvall and his "eye patch panty" wearing lobbyist/slag).

Nurse costumes this year fell from fifth to 13th most popular while politicians dropped off the list altogether (hmmm, really? a Karen Bass costume with an army buzz cut wig, snake scales all over your arms and a giant fish hat seems about right, as does a Swarzneggegger outfit complete with urine stained slacks, a frankenstein mask and a cigar).

New this year, is a mask of Bernie Madoff.(included, a wrinkled neck piece)

I have attached (see below) the costume that has brought a lot of flack, bickering and hurt feelings especially amongest the Illegal advocates, to the point that some stores took it off..Hey, its a fucking costume for halloween, you morons, you. (and it's funny cause that's what alot of people really think)

I want one of these.