Well, no wonder. My socialistic state has 3 million state workers, 10% of the total state population. There will be lots of bad apples in the bunch. And, during Gray Davis' reign, budgets grew 20% a year and my guess is that departments were having trouble figuring out how to spend their money.
And the above comment doesn't include the waste at LA Unified School district and other huge, bloated school bureaucracies in the state.