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End the Squabble in the Green Party - A Call For
A Bicameral Legislature in the National Assembly
CA Green Party Decries Special Election
As Arnold’s Propositions Flop with Voters
SACRAMENTO (Nov. 8, 2005)
The Green Party of California criticized Tuesday night's Special Election the final vote count notwithstanding and
charged the initiative process had been manipulated by big monied interests to control voters in the state.
Although the final results were still too close to call on the eve of the election, the GPCA said that Gov. Schwarzenegger's initiative gambit hurt the people of California no matter who won or lost Tuesday night.
"Arnold's initiatives are just another example of how big money controls politics in this state and country," said
Forrest Hill, a California Green national delegate.
"How can we expect Americans to take government seriously, when what passes for leadership is trivial television
ads, mean-spirited initiatives targeting working people and red-herring solutions like redistricting to solve the undemocratic nature of our government," he said.
Hill suggested that if "we truly want to stop gerrymandering and get money out of government as Arnold says he
want to do, then let's move to a system of proportional representation like most every other democracy in the world."
The GPCA endorsed only Prop. 79, a drug discount measure opposed by pharmaceutical companies but supported
by consumer groups. It is a sweet victory for Green's and all progressives that all of Arnold's pet propositions
failed in the November Special Election he called and worked so hard to support.
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