Who are you trying to kid? The legislature is consistently picked by the Leftists in Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The conservatives are consistently drowned out by those Leftist municipalities.
And in those rare occasions in which the conservatives do win, the Leftists take the matter to the Leftist-leaning courts and prevail via the judicial tyranny.
Why do you think so many good people are fleeing this state?
No one. Alabama (my state) sends 7 of 9 Republican Congressmen to Washington. At the same time, we have a heavily Dim controlled state legislature. Why? In our system of Federalism, the State gov't is relatively powerless. We just aren't affected enough by the Dim bozos in the state legislature to put up much of a fight.