Strickland Takes First Step in Running for State Controller

» bbraisin on 03.06.10 @ 10:42 AM

I am sure Tony Strickland knows what he is doing however; where can his conservative influence be best used?  Perhaps he should continue in his present role to support the other Republicans running for office against the Democrats that have let their consituents down. California needs more individuals like him wherever he can best make his voice heard. Best of luck, Tony!

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» publius on 03.07.10 @ 05:12 PM

Thanks for this article. Just the tonic readers needed for a damp, rainy Saturday.

LOL. And the laughter counteracts the wind and rain pretty nicely.

Senator Strickland, and his wife, (Ventura) Assemblywoman Strickland, have spent their entire adult lives railing against the role that “big government” plays on us, and extolling the efficiencies and virtues of “the private sector”.

But unlike Noozhawk’s Dan Petry, the Stricklands (and predecessor/mentor, Congressman Tom McClintock) are remarkably reluctant to actually try earning a living in the private sector they always speechify about.

The Stricklands have spent their entire careers happily supping at the public
trough.

They (and McClintock) are the kind of “career politicians” the Tea Party was
launched to rein-in.

While (termed out) Mrs. Strickland boldly announced a few months ago that she
was preparing to leave Sacramento to ...

become Ventura County Treasurer, husband Tom seeka to stay in Sacramento to ... become State Controller.

Isn’t it interesting that, in the most brutal economic downturn since the ‘30s,
both Stricklands want to stay on the public payroll, in “skill positions,” to manage the public’s tax funds?

Neither one has any training whatever in accounting, audit, bookeeping, financial management, financial planning - all the skill sets you’d hope a county treasurer, or the State Controller, would have.

Many of us are still waiting for Tony to “create” all those “new, Green jobs” he
promised in the last election, via his new “green business”, which still exists
only on paper, and employs ... no one.

Wasn’t it just two years ago that Strickland campaigned for our state senate seat based on his “profound desire to serve the residents of the district”?

Why the “Sarah Palin”, trying to bail out on his sworn duty as our senator, when his term is only half-over, and the state is in a bad lurch?

Do California’s voters need a quitter, with an invisible record of achievement, to be our chief financial officer, in the toughest times imaginable?

Ventura County - to its credit - has decided that county elected “professional” or “skill” positions should now have “minimum professional requirements” that
all candidates must meet in order to be eligible to run.

Rather than take bookeeping, accounting, audit, or management classes, and
earn certification somewhere, Mrs. Strickland recently announced that she would
NOT run for County Treasurer.

But, she’s not going home, or into the private sector either, however.

Now, she is running for County Supervisor, instead.

LOL.

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» John Locke on 03.07.10 @ 10:46 PM

All this criticism about Strickland depending on the government for his living…  Where’s the criticism of Capps, Carbajal, Nava, Jordan (Nava’s wife and codependent on government income), Boxer (introduced ONE bill in her 17 years in office), Feinstein (the mother of all control freaks), Pelosi (whose claim to drain the swamp in Washington has become, er, swamped in the antics of ethically challenged Dems) and all the other apparently permanent spendthrift fixtures in our government who make no bones about feasting at the public trough.  Only conservatives are worthy of criticism?

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