Voters “McCann’t” say no to this argument

Mya McCannOpinion EditorWith midterm elections behind us, the topic on every Californian’s mind is our new governor, and the nominee who didn’t win.On one end of the political spectrum stood Jerry Brown, the Democratic candidate. On the other end, the conservative end, was Meg Whitman. Both candidates flooded televisions, radios and newspapers with their vicious assumptions about the opposing party and humble rebuttals about what the opposing has assumed. I saw this happen at primetime, nighttime, daytime, all the time! And like you, America, I’m sick of the same old dirty politics. I’m ready for a change. And I’m prepared to be that change. You’re welcome.Like Moses, I have heard the cries of my people, and contrary to Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman, I’m prepared to morph California from a land of deficit and sin into a land of milk and honey. (Mind you, this will be untaxed milk and untaxed honey).We’ve been listening to the political agendas of “the man” for so long — the old, out of date man. Milk and honey expire, and so do political practices. I’m new. I’m fresh. And with my extensive 17 years of research, I’ve determined what does and does not work in a society.If elected, I promise to put school at the top of my list of priorities by ending it all together. I figure that since more money goes into prisons in the first place, why not make it more accessible for students to reside there? Billions of dollars are funneled into state jails each year, and with more education comes fewer arrests. I would not be a governor who would waste money. Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman, however, would.As previous governor, Jerry Brown has already increased Cal Grant funding by 50 percent and raised the K-12 budget from $2.1 billion in 1974-75 to about $8.2 billion in 1982-83. Meg Whitman also promised to waste money on the school system by investing $1 billion into the University of California and the California State University systems. Though that’s an insignificant number in comparison and not much money at all, it’s waste regardless.Clearly the aforementioned candidates do not have their priorities straight, and that’s a recipe for failure. They’re so concerned with saying the right things to get voted in that they forget about doing the right things to deserve it. And now that we have our governor, it’s going to be interesting to see if those promises are kept. Talk is cheap, and yet they continue to invest millions of their own dollars into doing just that. No one likes a paradox. If I’m elected governor I promise that all my policies will be straightforward with no contradictions; I promise to change my mind frequently.So as you sit there and listen to the promises of our governor, I encourage you to disregard the swears and reject the slogans. Sure, this new governor has experience, but what I lack in experience I make up in youth.What Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman can’t, Mya McCann.mmccann@thesamohi.com