be scared folks, very scared. :-o
..or is it just nothing more than TWirPs at work... elites, social democRats and libs masquerading as moderates and now preparing to do their dirty deeds with a newly elected leader shaking it up on the media sound stage globally.
Gridlock is good. Republics are ugly but beat all alternatives. Let the fighting continue or prepare for tyranny.
This sounds like a way to create a brand new unelected governemnt. Just what the elitist snots have been dreaming about for years. I had a feeling the Democrats would go bonkers with their power if they got elected. Increasingly I'm being proven right.
Somehow, creating a unicameral legislature to increase the volume and flow rate of the sludge created in Sacramento doesn't sound like an improvement, but maybe that's just me.
Go ahead California, if you want to run your own show, epect to pay for it yourself as well.
California is already bankrupt, so how is it going to make universal health care defying federal powers? (and therefore money)
Pay back your deficit you owe America California, then you can become Mexifornia all you want, and have Mexican style "universal health care" as well.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
No thank you, they can keep their "hybrid democracy".
"Californians are backing away from the two-party machine system, voting for candidates of choice, and vigorously using initiatives."
Some of the "initiatives" approved by voters that liberals don't like here in CA get thrown out in the lib hack courts
The Marxists declare their first victory in dismantling the USA. The nation-state of California. Be very afraid.
There's a reason that the founders set up the Constitution the way they did, and favored a democratic republic" rather than a democracy. Pure "democracy" is two wolves and a sheep on a desert island voting on what's for lunch.
I hate to have to state the obvious, but that's it.
Nominated by who? Or dare I ask.
If California's hybrid democracy is being touted as a model for the nation, perhaps they should move that State's primary into February...
> Want to overhaul the Legislature into a single nonpartisan house?
Sounds like what Nebraska has had for nearly 80 years. Actually, now that BOTH houses have to be elected on a one-man/one-vote basis, a two-house stae system makes no sense at all. If it was done the same way as the Federal House/Senate is done, I could see the sense in a two-house system. However, it is no longer legal to do it that way.
As one who had California civics instruction in HS in the 60s I don't see anything new here except the instigator and maybe the frequency of use of certain of the provisions of the California Constitution. Remember gang that the 1978 Prop 13 limit on property taxes was an initiative (legislation that begins through a petition drive and is decided based on a statewide ballot).
California also has the referendum (legislature passing the buck through a plebiscite), but that seems to have gotten less play recently. The petition recall of Gray Davis that elected Governor Ahnold is a third leg of the populist California constitution. I believe these provisions were adopted in the early 20th century. Most states do not make it as easy to employ democratic populism. This will not spread wide without significant changes in many state constitutions.