Washington Affairs

3 November 2003


Fire Destroys Miles of Southern California
By the time this is posted to the web, the death toll from California's fires, now at 20, will likely be higher and the official count of homes destroyed will surpass the 850 currently confirmed as burned to nothingness. The governor-elect has already been to Washington to plead for help in rebuilding. If the Bush administration's previous track record is anything to go by, Mr. Schwarzenegger would have been better off trying to blow the flames out. Click here to read more.

Non-Partisan Elections -- Triumph of the Plutocrats
Fresh from the California coup d'etat, the plutocratic party of the US is trying to convince New Yorkers that municipal elections should be non-partisan. Republican Mayor Bloomberg, a billionaire, has spend $2 million of his own money trying to get the voters to back an amendment to the city charter to abolish party primaries in the interest of better government. He means better government for people like himself. Click here for more.

Democratic Senator Zell Miller Will Back Bush in 2004
Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) announced last week that he will support President Bush in the 2004 general election. This is not a surprise, as Senator Miller has quite conservative credentials. He says he will not become a Republican, but as he has titled his forthcoming book, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat, one wonders why not. Click here to read on.