Free Republic

CALIFORNIA's election system -- with its exclusionary primaries and gerrymandered districts -- has become the great enabler that sends to Sacramento the most extreme lawmakers on the right and left. If you want a legislator who works for all of California, you don't elect the likes of Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, D-Los Angeles, and Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy, R-Monrovia, and expect them to compromise and work together. You do elect them if you want rancor and gridlock. And silly bills that focus on narrow issues, while the state's budget festers. What to do? In 1996, moderate GOP Congressman Tom Campbell and others...