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Chairman Del Beccaro's Statement in Response to the California

Supreme Court Ruling on the State Senate Maps

SACRAMENTO, CA – California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro today issued the following statement in regards to today's Supreme Court ruling on the State Senate maps:

"Today, although they agreed with the merit of our efforts, the California Supreme Court severely undermined the referendum process in California. The voters clearly voted to "stay" the use of the lines if a sufficient number of signatures were submitted. Without a justifiable excuse for not honoring their obligation to do so, the Supreme Court simply ignored our plainly written law. As a 24 year practicing attorney, I can tell you that the failure to honor the law as written undermines the rule of law and encourages detrimental litigation. It will be up to the voters this Fall to renew the rights that were extinguished today."

A Note From Congressman McClintock

Dear Friend, 

After President Clinton took a drubbing from voters in the 1994 Congressional election, he realized his policies weren't working.  He promptly declared, "The era of big government is over," and he then went about making good on that declaration.

President Obama faced a similar crossroads as he delivered his fourth State of the Union Address to Congress.  If he had followed the example of his successful Democratic predecessor, he could have redeemed his presidency, revived the economy and rallied the country. 

Instead, he succumbed to the basic ingredient of hubris: that the more we invest in our mistakes, the less willing we are to correct them.

His fourth State of the Union speech came on the 35th consecutive month of unemployment rates over eight percent -- unemployment rates that would be still higher except that millions of Americans have simply given up looking for work and are no longer counted among the unemployed.

Follow this link to see my entire response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

Instead, what Barack Obama has prescribed is guaranteed to produce gridlock, finger-pointing and sniping, as his combative tone clearly signaled is his intention. 

Whittier's words haunt the country in the aftermath of this lost opportunity: "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been.'

 

Sincerely, 

Tom