Toon Op: The Court Giveth and Taketh Away

By on July 1, 2012 in News


Solely for use on Santa Barbara View. By local cartoonist Steve Greenberg.

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Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist for the Santa Barbara View. From 2002-2008 he was on staff with the Ventura County Star and his cartoons have won awards or honors nearly every year of his career, including runner-up in the 2008 Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition (behind the guy who later won the 2008 Pulitzer). Steve's graphics and illustrations have won one solo and five shared Society of Newspaper Design awards.
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5 Responses to Toon Op: The Court Giveth and Taketh Away

  1. Freedom of Cartooning July 1, 2012 at 9:06 am #

    These cartoon represent the opposite of my political thinking. Therefore, I find them offensive and not funny. And what has gone wrong with America. They crystalize the wrong-headed thinking that has driven our country down the drain and for that I appreciate the reminder of how stupid our country has become. But this is not a joke. This is a tragedy.

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  2. Whos reality ? July 2, 2012 at 10:45 am #

    Is this supposed to be funny, a joke? The real joke is on the people that subscribe to this way of thinking! SAD

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  3. Punchline July 2, 2012 at 6:35 pm #

    Gosh, what a novel way of visually presenting edscat’s constant refrain: Corporations bad. Government handouts good.

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  4. Barbara July 2, 2012 at 11:31 pm #

    I happen to believe that it is bad for corporations to be able to buy elections, and I think there are a few others out there who share that belief. As for healthcare, I think the whole system is deeply corrupted, but that those who cannot afford it should be able to get it when it is needed.

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    • Union Libel July 2, 2012 at 11:41 pm #

      Corporations can’t buy elections. That would be voter fraud. You must mean some thing else. And why would any voter let themselves get bought? It all gets down to one’s own single vote.

      Corporations can’t even vote so how can they “buy” an election. This gets back to voters having contempt for their fellow voters who they think will be seduced by big money, but of course one knows that they themselves will not. Right?

      So rather than bashing corporations who don’t even vote and therefore they have no vote to sell, why not do something about these “other” voters you apparently think will sell out? This Supreme Court ruling is a tempest in a teapot and ironic because if any one has “bought” elections it is the dragooning of public employee union money and members that has turned California into a totally dysfunctional state legislature.

      I think you are wasting your time bashing corporations when you have a signed, sealed and delivered dysfunctional legislature right in your own back yard purchased lock stock and barrel with public union money and more importantly public union political activism.

      You counter this public union gridlock by organizing your own GOTV campaigns so the unions can’t haul in all the IV voters and turn any election into their favor in this area.
      I thinks this is just one more public employee smokescreen deflecting the blame they should be getting for having sold out California for their own union members benefits.

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