CA: Coastal panel structure created political influence-peddling

Sac Bee ^ | 12/13/02 | Dan Walters

[NormsRevenge]

The California Coastal Commission is a 12-member agency with virtually total control over land development proposals along the state's 1,000-mile-long coastline. It also has a unique structure that generates a high level of political influence-peddling in how money-laden coastal issues are resolved, sometimes to the level of outright corruption.

[NormsRevenge]

Last year, a Superior Court judge in Sacramento ruled that having 12 coastal commissioners appointed as they are violates the California Constitution's separation-of-powers provisions. The ruling, if upheld on appeal, should spark a fundamental overhaul of a very flawed, albeit very powerful, state agency.

A Republican Judge, I bet.

This panel stands in the way of off-shore drilling? And it's flawed? Ouch.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Dirty Harry is tight with Davis? Then he is properly named.