Its virtually impossible to do anything with the legislature. It's so gerrymandered as to make improvement virtually impossible...and the Dems control nearly 2/3s of both houses.
I guess you could put a lot of effort into making the redrawing of the legislative boundaries next year after the census is completed come out in your favor. However, I think California has idiotically handed drawing of their Congressional districts to an elite cabal of 15 people...not even the legislature has a say anymore.
I wonder if a massive tax protest would get their attention? Californians could ask their Republican representatives to vote against ANY budget until California defends Prop. 8 and prop. 187 since it takes 2/3 of the legislature to pass the budget. All state business would stop until they follow the will of the people. Another thing to do would be to put a bill that requires the state to exhaust all legislative appeals in defense of popularly passed initiatives. So they don't scuttle them like they are doing with prop.8 and prop 187.
And if it doesn't - stop spending. The state needs the sales tax revenue so badly, a tax payer revolt would totally freak them out.
No spending until prop 8 becomes state law - period.
“. The government is becoming so non-responsive to the people that it makes you wonder if things will eventually force people into civil disobedience”
Civil disobedience would have happened a long time ago in another era. Or from the left.