I believe this third assertion is incorrect (or at least imprecise) and the next paragraph proves my point. They don't ignore the problems, they respond to them, but like the parable about the drunken many looking for his keys by a lamppost ("because the light is better here") they typically attack the symptoms, not the root cause.
The roads are bad in California (just like the roads are bad in Washington) not because they aren't sufficiently funded, but because the funds are misspent and squandered on liberal feel-good crappola.
At a Christmas day party for empty nesters and orphans
like me a retired CalTrans operating engineer reminded me
that Jerry Brown robs federal road funds and uses them
for his pet projects like high speed rails that come
from nowhere and go to nowhere.
They spend the money on bike routes.
Nope, it’s dead on. Got a severe drought? Need water for humans and agriculture? Too bad, we’re going to keep dumping millions of gallons of fresh water a day into the ocean to save an invasive species of trash fish and removing dams that could have held back reserves of drinking water.