California Republican Convention Grand Kool-Aid Award Goes to…
Drumroll please…
Senator Abel “Maldo” Maldonado.
Yup, I could have sworn I saw the Kool Aid ring stretching from his lips while I was at the convention.
Maldo ran all over the convention telling a sob story about how his Father came to America on the “Vaquero” program. (I could have the name wrong)
He shared how his Dad bought a house while working for minimum wage. WHAT!!!
Even in the 50’s and 60’s there was no way in hell you could buy a house let alone a car on the Minimum Wage. My own Father told me a story about his first job being for $.75 an hour. Tell me how you could buy a $3,500 new car on that kind of wage?
Come on Maldo… what’s worse is that he told that same sob story in efforts to kill mine and my brother’s resolutions to the CRP, because mine, George’s and one against the minimum wage were all combined into one resolution package.
I talked to my good friend Craig DeLuz that told me that every time Minimum wage goes up, those who lose their jobs are single Black and Latino people. He cited studies that he has read.
At the Resolutions Committee meeting, two black members of that committee got up and incinuated as did Maldo that if you oppose a minimum wage increase, you are racist. Really? Given what Craig Said, the racist position is raising minimum wage.
Me a racist? Go ahead and cuss me out in Spanish and tell me what a racist I am… If you don’t speak or write Spanish, then what’s your problem?
Maldo, you blew it… get out of the Controller’s Race and go back to your Senate District and serve us there. I don’t have an issue with you being a liberal Republican… your district dictates it. I do have an issue with you being a political opportunist and carrying this minimum wage bill is just that… you should have let Jackie Goldberg Carry this bill.
The Controller’s office needs someone with conviction and core values that will see through auditing all areas of our bloated state Government. Having a political opportunist in that office is bad news.
Abel Maldonado, winner of the Grand Kool-Aid Award of the California GOP Convention Winter 2006! Considering that this Convention will go down as the Kool-Aid Convention for the ages… Maldo has really earned a dubious award.
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February 28th, 2006 at 8:03 am
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February 28th, 2006 at 10:52 am
This guy is complete sleaze. I saw one of his speeches at a convention a few years back where he talked about how much he loved his wife and family, then later that night at a college republican party he was acting just like Bill Clinton, flirting big time with the girls and it was obvious he wanted to a have his way with a few. Given that they left the party together i woudln’t be surprised. This guy screams trouble.
February 28th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Aww, c’mon. You’re just jealous…