Re: Dogs and Cats Living Together

Questioning priorities is something I frequently find myself doing in dealing with Jim Baca. But today, I found myself wondering if he has priorities?

Today, he leads talking about how great it is that the state legislature has allocated $420k for some kind of peace conference, that not even Mr. Baca has heard of. Normally, I'd research it before mentioning it, but if Baca can label it good without knowing it, I am free to critize the spending of funds on it. But the time it takes, manpower to run it and the four-hundred-and-twenty-thousand-dollars it will costs to host are all somehow good things to Mr. Baca. Maybe this is the kind of thing he looks forward to hosting in the ever-relevent State Land Commisioner's office.

But then, he launches into a non-sensical argument against concealed weapons he had years ago with the legislator who sponsored the bill allowing the conference. And while Mr. Baca is clearly anti-concealed weapon, I think he made a fairly good argument for them. So I'll leave the concept alone, and stick to wondering why he brought it up at all?

Finally, Mr. Baca's last post about a change in candidate for the Republican candidiate for govenor has gone unanswered by this blog. I don't know anything about it, and don't care to research it. Govenor Richardson is doing a fine job and I don't intend to vote against him. But in the comments on that particular post, Mr. Baca explains his refusal to capitalize our President's name. It seems Mr. Baca is so full of contempt for President Bush that he cannot even respect his existance as a person on this planet. Which is itself a problem (I shudder to think what will happen if he is elected and adopts that attitude towards the executives of the gas and oil companies he'll be working with as Land Commisioner) but leads to a funny revelation: If Mr. Baca refuses to capitalize 'bush' because of a lack of respect, but will capitalize Karl Rove's name (as evidenced even in the same blog post!), does that idicate that Mr. Baca respects Karl Rove more than George W. Bush?