[NormsRevenge]

citizen legislators 8-?

sounds like a risky deal to me... NOT!!! ;-\

[Joe Hadenuf]

part-time Legislature

Oh man, I like it.

And we'll pay them $14.50 an hour, and teach them it's an honor to be a public servant for 6 months, and they are lucky they are being paid.

Lets do it!

[only1percent]

I'd like to see a unicameral legislature of 100 members. Fewer politicians, no duplication, and the districts would actually be smaller, and thus more responsive, than the current districts in the 80-member Assembly or 40-member Senate. Also, it takes the political process out of the (inherently unaccountable) conference committee and moves it into the open forum of the legislative floor.

[45Auto]

Other than the guillotine, a part-time legislature is the best way to limit the damage done by politicians.

[toddst]

. . . in principle we always have supported a part-time Legislature made up of "citizen legislators" on the model of America's founders, who held real jobs between taking a few weeks each year to serve the people.

Part-time government should be instituted at all levels - clearly including Congress. The professional politicians we have now out not to be able to devote every waking hour to writing more laws and spending every dime they can confiscate from citizens.

[ibbryn]

This is the best thing that could ever happen to CA's government.
So it will never happen.

[Oatka]

We have a part-time legislature here in Nevada - meet once every two years for a max of 120 days.

I met a couple of our senators at a City Council meeting and they all had REAL jobs to feed their families.

One problem though is that a TON of bills pile up between sessions and the legislators are under pressure to deal with all of them in those 120 days.

In their rush this year, they passed a bill allowing state agencies to recognize the matricula card. When I grilled the above pols as to why, the best they could come up with was "the Hispanics were yelling for it." I don't know of any Hispanics in my neighborhood who would agree - the illegals are cutting the ground out from under them also.

We've been trying to get CCW reciprocity here for years but good ole Bernie Anderson (D-Dist. 31) is head of the committee that bottles it up each time.

Still think it is a good idea though, along with 401Ks instead of pensions.