Our View: Ose in touch with the foothills'needs
Doug Ose is the choice for Republicans voting in the June 3 primary election. Ose is well versed on local issues and pledges to work hard to help local government secure federal funding for needed projects. Small communities like Auburn, Colfax, Lincoln and others would greatly benefit from a regional wastewater-treatment plant. The federal government keeps demanding more from wastewater-treatment plants, and should return more of our own money to pay for the upgrades it demands. Ose pledges to fight for us. Interstate 80 is a vital transportation corridor that links the eastern and western United States. Federal funding must be secured to ease traffic at the Interstate 80 bottleneck in Roseville. Ose plans to fight for that funding. Construction of a Highway 65 bypass also deserves federal funding, as does the development and preservation of freshwater drinking supplies for the growing 4th District. It will take a respected consensus builder like Ose who is committed to working with local elected officials to turn these plans into construction projects. “Father Knows Best” was a popular TV series in the 1950s and might have seemed like a practical leadership style back then. But it is certainly not a leadership style that would benefit the 4th District in 2008. We need a leader who will listen to and represent us. Ose is willing to listen to ordinary taxpayers and local elected officials alike. In his previous congressional tenure he held hundreds of town hall meetings seeking public input. State Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, Ose’s main opponent, has been a key player among California conservatives for more than 20 years. He’s respected as a strict constitutionalist, a hawk on government spending and waste, and a vehement opponent of congressional earmarks that have escalated the national debt. Regionally, he supports the construction of the Auburn dam, opposes regulations that drive up the costs of wastewater treatment, and says he would fight for I-80 congestion relief on the value of merit — not earmarked funding tacked onto other federal bills. But while McClintock’s principles are noteworthy, even admirable, his lack of knowledge on local issues could set back this district for several years. Unless Congress joins en masse in outlawing earmarks, Placer County could be left high and dry when it comes to federal appropriations. There is a good reason why all five members of the Placer County Board of Supervisors, Sheriff Ed Bonner, District Attorney Brad Fenocchio and a list of 100 local elected officials, including the majority of the Auburn, Rocklin, Lincoln and Roseville city councils, support Ose. They believe Ose will fight for them in Congress and that he is in touch with their needs as elected officials. Partisan politics have created gridlock in our state and federal government. It is time our elected leaders worked together to unite our country by focusing on what we share in common as Americans, rather than further divide us over hot-button issues like abortion, gay rights and gun control. Rising gas prices, a floundering economy, wasteful government spending, escalating taxation, illegal immigration and the need for fresh air and drinking water are all issues that concern Democrats and Republicans. Preserving the environment, particularly the spectacular gem we have in Lake Tahoe, must be a congressional priority. During these challenging times, we need a leader who can represent and unite the entire 4th District. Out of the four seeking election on the Republican primary ballot, Doug Ose is the best choice.
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Most journalists have a very strong liberal bent. The Journal's might be less than most, but it shouldn't come as any surprise that the support the more liberal of the two candidates.
Ah, but Realist, this is the biggest schnooker in local political history, painting a Bush Republican like Doug Ose as some sort of "liberal. " They realize the district's constituency is completely fed up with the Republican Incumbent's antics, yet the writer(s) of the above piece cite as goals the exact same things Doolittle has already secured funding for, for the most part.
Lincoln has its immense sewage treatment plant.
Ted Gaines was in the paper this week breaking ground for more I-80 Roseville @ Douglas Bottleneck construction.
The Lincoln paper reported a few months ago that construction funds were almost all secured for the "Lincoln Bypass."
So what in the world is the supposed attractiveness of Doug Ose? He must be planning to Pork It Up as much as his predecessor for future projects.
As a member of the minority party in Congress, with a Democratic President, how could he be effective in doing that, given his stated, per his campaign website, devotion to the Republican "business as usual" in the MidEast (continued Iraq War), and "business as usual" per our country's continued reliance on using more oil, creating more of an enviromental disaster every day ? All the Republicans continue to insist that the so- called free market is the answer to rising fuel prices... the free market indeed will give us more rising fuel prices. Then what? The Bush EPA told California that's just too bad if CA wants higher fuel standards for automobiles. Republicans routinely try to kill funding for useful alternatives like Amtrak.
The Republicans have Presidential Candidate McCain running around the country saying we deserve a federal "gas tax holiday" which would only give the average driver about $2 to $4 a week in savings over the summer, or about $32 to $64 savings over the next 4 months. That's the price of a single fill up of gasoline. Yet that same gas tax suspension would destroy funding for all summer road repair construction (funded by the federal govt) by billions of dollars, and destroy the jobs that would currently exist to fix those roads !!!!
While it is obvious that Doug Ose is interested in going to Washington for more tax breaks for himself, his continued support of a party dedicated to impoverishing our Nation thru unwise choices cannot be tolerated. McClintock does us all a disservice callling him a "liberal."
Ose campaigns on big-government trap the Journal has fallen for. The federal government threatens to fine our local communities for not having water systems up to federal standards, so we have to beg them for money to upgrade to comply with their own regulations. Beg for more government or the government will punish you. How on earth are we ever going to get more local control over our communities, or lower taxes, if we keep looking towards leaders who plan to escalate federal power?
Interesting that the Journal doesn't even mention the one CA-04 candidate who has been heavily advertising in their papers with full color, glossy four panel inserts.
Ose *IS* a liberal, CanyonRat.....the snooker is that Bush & Co have managed to convince people that they're conservative. He's given us, with congressional approval, a ballooning federal debt, corporate bailouts, unchecked budget growth, abrogation of civil liberties and the rule of law, *TORTURE*, 2 foreign wars, "extraordinary rendition", illegal wiretapping, withdrawal from the Geneva Conventions, and more....are any of those things at all conservative? Doug Ose was present and voting for a great many of the abuses of the past 8 years. We definitely don't need more of that.
Regarding the article above....how is Lake Tahoe a "congressional priority"? Lake Tahoe is in California....seems to me that would make it a state priority! We don't need people 3500 miles away telling us how to keep our lakes and rivers clean! California has the toughest environmental laws in the country. We don't need anyone else's help keeping our air and water clean.
Terbolizard represents a return to the libertarian roots of the Republican party. We need to take the party back from these neo-con socialist thugs. Terbo will consistently vote to keep Congress' meddling hands out of our pockets and off of our land.
Vote TERBO on June 3rd!
People who vote for Ose clearly have not been to the debates... he is awesome if you like a guy who reads from his script every time. McClintock is a bit better at speaking. Both of them though just bicker back and forth about how the other guy sucks. Just what we need a representative who specializes in name calling and dirt digging.
How about we elect someone like Ted Terbolizard, who I see here posting on this topic and being involved in the community? I challenge any one of you to try to get your "future representative" on the phone to discuss how you wish to be represented... There is only one candidate out there who you can approach and speak with, who actually gives a damn about YOU. It's not Ose or McClintock, that's for sure.
Terbo is SO the right guy for the job. But here come the papers and TV stations thinking that they know what is best for our district, and force feeding us mainstream Neo-Conservative Socialists. Cast a vote for freedom, vote Terbo.
How many people think that IF Ose won the Republican primary, the Auburn Journal would endorse him over Charlie Brown in the fall?
Zero?
Clearly, the Journal is trying to manage the Republican Primary so they can have the weakest candidate oppose Charlie Brown in the fall.
This is not news.
They ought to just come out and say "We are endorsing Ose because we want Brown to win" and be honest about it.
I don't trust "Terbolizard". I think he has a secret hidden agenda. I have a funny feeling he is 100% for "medical marijuana". Hey Ted the feds say it's illegal, leave it illegal. Don't vote for this guy.
Terbolizard comes off more than just a little nutty to me. Of course so does TahoeLiberty. It shouldn't be any surprise a guess that TL supports the lizard. Hey TahoeLiberty, ever see that dotted line on the map that runs through Lake Tahoe? That's the line that represents the state border. It also indicates that Lake Tahoe is in California (mostly), but also partially in Nevada (a different state). Perhaps thats why some people think it's not just a single state issue. And really, "neo-con socialist thugs"? Do you not see the contradictions there?
The FEDS ought not have anything to say about medical marijuana---as well as many other things they meddle in. I guess that "State's Rights" is a nutty concept.
medical marijuana--- is a nutty concept, just read the law as passed along with the more recent legislation SB420. Ask your primary care physician to write a prescription for pot, see what response the Doctor has. Too many loopholes!