Mike Reagan: I Am Disgusted with California

Phil Brennan Article

The decision of the California Supreme Court to ignore Proposition 22, which declares that “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," and was passed with a whopping 61 percent of the vote, an outraged Michael Reagan urged California voters to join him in refusing to vote for any ballot measures in the State of California in the 2008 November election since the courts can simply nullify their votes whenever they want to. Reagan, whose father Ronald Reagan served two terms as California’s governor before winning the presidency in 1980, said "I am taking my ballot and mailing it directly to the Supreme Court of California at 350 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA 94102-4797 to allow the judges to decide for us. They’re going to do it anyway.” Reagan told Newsmax: "We have seen this time and time again, Democracy usurped, the voters wishes do not matter, whether its Proposition 187 or the Gay Marriage Ban, its no longer 'We the People,' it is now, 'They the Judges' who make the decisions in the Golden State. As the son of a former Governor of this state I am disgusted." Noting that the courts have been thwarting the express will of the people, Reagan explained to NewsMax in an exclusive interview that “Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot initiative designed to deny social services, health care, and public education to illegal aliens that passed with 58.8 percent of the vote was overturned by a federal court, in effect telling the voters their will doesn’t count. “The state of California has a history of voting for ballot measures. But any time Californians seem to vote for an issue that may be even slightly conservative, the liberal left goes out and shops judges, or as in this case, shops courts, and gets them to overturn ballot measures overwhelmingly supported by the voters,” Reagan said. California voters have no remedy for judicial interference with their expressed will. Reagan said, “We don’t have a Republican Party, it does not exist, it does nothing, and we have a nincompoop for a governor who wants to raise sale taxes or borrow money from the lottery to pay down the out-of-control debt caused by the liberals who are running this state. I’m about ready to say bring back Grey Davis, the guy we recalled. Schwarzenegger has vetoed two measures that would have authorized same-sex marriage, and today said he would abide by the court's ruling. "I respect the court's decision and as governor, I will uphold its ruling," he said in a statement. "Also, as I have said in the past, I will not support an amendment to the constitution that would overturn this state Supreme Court ruling." Said Mike Reagan “The only recourse California voters have is to protest by following my example and mailing their ballots dealing with the proposed propositions to the State Supreme Court. Let them mark it since it does the voters no good to vote in California when we have a Supreme Court that overturns their will whenever they feel like it." “Why should I vote?” Reagan asked. “I have no reason to vote so as of now I’m stopping. It doesn’t matter what the voters think. It only matters what liberals in black robes think.”