To the Editor

"Three key Democrats won't oppose Davis" (a story in the San Francisco

Chornicle, 18 June 2003) and declare the coming recall vote on the Governor as

"odious and a threat to democracy." This vote may be "odious" in their minds, but

it is only a threat to dollarocracy. True direct democracy, in the style of a New

England town meeting, does not exist in present day corporate-controlled media

rule of America. Dollarocracy is our present system of putting elections up for sale

to the highest bidder and where legislators' votes can be purchased for a

few thousand dollars (see same-day front-page story, "Banks defeat privacy bill

again").

Our present Governor, Gray Davis, is plainly corrupt in the classic sense. For

example, he has accepted very large campaign contributions from the prison

guards unions, and magically, the prison construction program will continue to grow

untouched even though the State has multi-billion dollar budget deficits and

many social programs are being heavily slashed. No job layoffs in the prison

business!

With the coming recall election, the political establishment is scared stiff: why,

almost anybody could become the new Governor of California! Real democracy is

very scary to those used to the tried-and-true corruption of good old American

dollarocracy.

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

18 June 2003