Posted on 01/04/2012 9:55:01 AM PST by SmithL
Polls tell us that the vast majority of Californians believe their Legislature is ineffective and at least semi-corrupt.
The 120 men and women who serve in the Legislature don't like being held in such low esteem.
However, their poor image is enhanced when a legislator is arrested for drunken driving or nailed for sexual harassment, or when their leaders hand out fat raises to their staffers and deny media access to their financial records – to name but a few recent imbroglios.
The public might be more tolerant of such hijinks if lawmakers were also doing their jobs – i.e., dealing with the many policy issues that confront such a large and fractious state. But year after year, the schools and the roads deteriorate, the state budget goes unbalanced, the water supply becomes more precarious and the economy stagnates.
Meanwhile, the Capitol emits legislation that is either petty or slavishly responds to well-heeled special interests.
The Legislature reconvenes today, which means it has another chance to either reinforce its low standing or improve its image,
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
California needs to fill the gap opened up by Amsterdam shutting down its main entertainment and provide a series of resorts comparable to the gaming casinos.
The basic problem is California Legislature is communists like Democrats that are so corrupt business and citizens are leaving the State. State is broke and will never come back by the time Moombeam is finished. State is a environmental nightmare.
And yet they still keep voting the same Dems back into office year after year.
Keep slamming them shots down, Dan.
You have a democRat regime, a gerrymandered machine,
built on the backs of people who actually worked
to make this state a decent place to live.
Now.. Rats run the granaries in cohort with their vermin brethren and a bunch of brain-washed doped-up hot-tubbers and illegals and unions help keep ‘em in place.
Double down for shots, Dan. How can you lose?
In a unanimous vote, the California legislature passed a law today making the Yak the official animal of California.
Read the whole story...the network is run by the decidedly non-Hispanic Haim Saban, the billionaire Democratic bundler based out of Hollywood.
The other fella mentioned, “Isaac Lee” doesn’t sound like one of la raza either.
Huh?
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