California: A historian's view: Voters want massive reforms here

Sacramento Bee ^ | Aug 31, 2003 | Dan Weintraub

[John Jorsett]

Kevin Starr, the preeminent California historian currently serving as the state librarian, says he had an "attack of Harvard snobbery" when he first thought about the attempt to recall Gov. Gray Davis. This is a circus, Starr quickly concluded, that will devalue the culture of California. But as the campaign took shape, Starr reconsidered. An appointee first of Republican Pete Wilson and then of Democrat Davis, and the author (so far) of three volumes of California history, Starr says he slowly began to realize that his original take was all wrong.

[Cicero]

Well, I don't give him any credit at all. The voters recalled Davis because they just realized we aren't in the 18th century any longer? I don't think so.

They recalled Davis because he is corrupt and incompetent and has presided over one of the largest budgetary fiascos in American history.

[dr_who_2]

One generation's "reform" is another generation's inherited debacle.

[witnesstothefall]

I'm considering removing to France to undertake undertaking.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

California is a perfect example of what happens when the Dems have complete control for too long! The sooner the rest of the nation recognises this the better.

[DoctorZIn]

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