[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Is the legislature in CA dominated by the left?

The reason I ask is, here in Rhode Island, we managed to vote in a republican governor.(must have been a bug in the vote scan software)

He appears to be giving it his best, but he's being devoured by the leftists who control everything.

I imagine, by the time he's through, the left's policies will remain even more firmly in place along with the deep rooted corruption that is a hallmark of state and city government here. Things will be considerably worse off, and the sole republican in government(governor) will probably take all the blame.

People cheered when we elected a pub, but he is helpless to change anything and is constantly knifed by the dem leaders and set up as a fool by the AG.

Yet, he'll shoulder the blame for the state's continueing decline.

What is the point of having a republican governor when he is powerless? We'd have been better off with a leftist cur, who would have nobody to blame for the continued disintegration of the state.

Only the utter collapse of the leftists policies will ever lead to meaningful change here.

[KantianBurke]

[Bob]

What is the point of having a republican governor when he is powerless?

Governors in California aren't all that powerless. In California, governors have a line-item veto. This, in and of itself, gives them a great deal of power over the budget process.

[ambrose]

California has a line-item veto, which means the governor can veto out any "pet project" backed by the Rat Leaders.