By Bill Baker, J.D.
Editor and Publisher, The San Bruno Beacon
If a dangerous political cocktail of bigger budget deficits and higher taxes with a histrionics chaser is appealing to you; then Jackie Speier should be your choice for Congress in the upcoming election.
"Histrionics" is defined as a "deliberate display of emotion for effect". Professional politicians like Speier use histrionics to manipulate other people and make themselves the center of attention. During the past 3 decades, Speier has used her mastery of histrionics and political opportunism to move up the political ladder.
Speier is always touting her "experience".
Speier served in the California State Assembly and Senate. She left the California State Senate in 2006. Speier is one of the architects of California's budget crisis. Her major acheivement as a State Legislator was to help create a huge budget deficit for the State of California with her support for wasteful spending and reckless fiscal policies.California State Legislators like Speier approved California State Budgets that are responsible for the State Budget disaster we are now experiencing. The financial disaster that the State of California is facing today is the cornerstone of Speier's legacy as a California State Legislator.
California's huge budget deficit is now threatening the education of California's children and inflicting a lot of pain on most of California's residents. This financial crisis is the result of having fiscally irresponsible State Legislators like Speier in Sacramento for so long.
Now, it is almost a done deal that Speier will be elected to a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. We already know that the U.S. Government has severe problems. The people voting for Speier are going to send her to Washington where she will help dig a deeper hole for us to climb out of on the Federal level.
Government at the local, State, and Federal level is such a mess these days because we keep electing irresponsible, reckless tax and spenders, like Jackie Speier, and expecting different results. Unfortunately, politicians like Speier don't change, they just move up the political food chain where they can do more damage on a larger scale. 