It’s California. What’s the point of voting there anyway?
No matter who is elected, the public trust there becomes the pubic thrust. Even if some initiative or referendum is passed overwhelmingly, the state courts end up overturning it anyway, and if not the state courts, then the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals surely will.
Government by fiat is alive and well in California. Even if California itself is almost expired.
There are a lot of reasons to vote. For one thing, there are several ballot initiatives that call for, among other things, raising taxes, curbing unions, abolishing the death penalty, and changing our auto insurance laws. We also have a chance, albeit small, of unseating US Senator Dianne Feinstein, and a liberal is mounting a spirited challenge to Ed Royce, my representative in the House. There are also races for our local community college board of trustees and for our high school and elementary school boards. Small as it may be, we have an outside chance of winning the state.
And if enough of us vote, we might even win the state for Romney.