This is 48% Off?

Today, an article in the Daily Cal (see here) reported that the ASUC Senate has decided that the impending recall election could follow less strict guidelines than a normal one, meaning a price tag of $25,000, instead of $48,000. Good tidings, no?

Admittedly, anything that saves taxpayers $23,000 is great news; still, I can't get excited when our Senatorial putzes are still wasting such a gigantic sum of cash. To put it in perspective by citing a few examples, with $25,000, I could:

(a) Buy a 1999–2002 Mercedes-Benz E55, according to Car and Driver; (b) legally purchase the entire discographies of my top-20 favorite bands and artists on vinyl, CD, cassette, and 8-track tape; (c) purchase a surplus eyeball on the North Korean black market for replacement surgery; (d) comfortably live and go to school in Berkeley for a year; (e) buy a catapult to protect my loved ones; (f) order a Slovenian mail-order bride and hire an idiot savant to teach her the fine art of counting cards, so she could earn me a modest fortune; or (g) redo my house's kitchen, among other things.

Instead, we're spending it settling a petty grudge, and regardless of whether or not Senator Moghtader is removed from office, the money will have already been wasted. Even more than to prevent the miscarriage of justice I've been writing about since November, then, Senator Moghtader needs to be kept in office to prevent setting a dangerous precedent - one which could pave the way for frivolous recalls for years to come. We already have to pay for one useless election a year; let's leave it at that.

It's decision '09... and for once, it means something. Don't just get out the vote, get the vote the fuck out - and vote NO on removing Senator John Moghtader from office.