The Opposition Platform
Never let it be said that your ol' pal LionStar doesn't take critiques. I most certainly do and I as given a very fair critique by one of my frequent readers and commentors, "Manny".
Manny made the very fair point that I have only focused on Pickett's extremists positions and not his platform. Manny is right. There is more to Pickett than race-baiting social media posts, preparing for revolution, and joining militias.
There is also his platform. His platform is very similar to the rest of that slate of candidates (Rosa Cabrera, Manny Hinojosa, and Josh Dagda). You know the Jaime O. Perez / Hector Montes / Stephanie Townsend Allala candidates.
First let me explain why I call them that.
Their platforms are all basically that Republican-themed playbook of Jaime O. Perez. He digs it up every election and feeds it to his candidates. Now some of them have sprinkled in a little "transparency" from Stephanie Townsend-Allala and Hector Montes.
They all have one other thing in common...they are all going to lose.
But lets get back to their platform.
The main three themes of their campaigns are reducing spending, lowering taxes, and transparency.
First, lets talk about what reducing spending and lowering taxes means. It means you have to either cut services and/or cut staff.
Reducing spending means that employees will lose their jobs, get less benefits, and likely get less pay. Oh they will have to do the same job of course. And if there are job cuts, they will have to do the same job plus that of the gal that lose her job. But for the same pay or possibly less.
Why a union guy like Hector Montes, who becomes a bigger liability to AFSCME the more involved in races he becomes, would advocate for a position like that is beyond me.
It makes zero sense and is in direct conflict to the goals of AFSCME.
Now lets talk about how this affects you the citizen. What the "cut spending / lower your taxes "cabal" isn't telling you is that they will cut your services. If you are okay with that, then by all means vote for them.
But none of them actually say where they will cut. Police and fire? Are we too safe? Are we getting too many services?
None of the opposition candidates actually talk about what they would cut. There are no specific answers from them. They make promises for what they are gonna do, but they never get into the details. There can be only two reasons for this.
Either they don't know, or they don't want you to know.
Thats not very transparent if you ask me.
Manny made the very fair point that I have only focused on Pickett's extremists positions and not his platform. Manny is right. There is more to Pickett than race-baiting social media posts, preparing for revolution, and joining militias.
There is also his platform. His platform is very similar to the rest of that slate of candidates (Rosa Cabrera, Manny Hinojosa, and Josh Dagda). You know the Jaime O. Perez / Hector Montes / Stephanie Townsend Allala candidates.
First let me explain why I call them that.
Their platforms are all basically that Republican-themed playbook of Jaime O. Perez. He digs it up every election and feeds it to his candidates. Now some of them have sprinkled in a little "transparency" from Stephanie Townsend-Allala and Hector Montes.
They all have one other thing in common...they are all going to lose.
But lets get back to their platform.
The main three themes of their campaigns are reducing spending, lowering taxes, and transparency.
First, lets talk about what reducing spending and lowering taxes means. It means you have to either cut services and/or cut staff.
Reducing spending means that employees will lose their jobs, get less benefits, and likely get less pay. Oh they will have to do the same job of course. And if there are job cuts, they will have to do the same job plus that of the gal that lose her job. But for the same pay or possibly less.
Why a union guy like Hector Montes, who becomes a bigger liability to AFSCME the more involved in races he becomes, would advocate for a position like that is beyond me.
It makes zero sense and is in direct conflict to the goals of AFSCME.
Now lets talk about how this affects you the citizen. What the "cut spending / lower your taxes "cabal" isn't telling you is that they will cut your services. If you are okay with that, then by all means vote for them.
But none of them actually say where they will cut. Police and fire? Are we too safe? Are we getting too many services?
None of the opposition candidates actually talk about what they would cut. There are no specific answers from them. They make promises for what they are gonna do, but they never get into the details. There can be only two reasons for this.
Either they don't know, or they don't want you to know.
Thats not very transparent if you ask me.
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