Free Republic

SACRAMENTO – The most comprehensive state government reform attempted in nearly a century was born on the back of a phone book. Ideas for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's California Performance Review - his plan to "blow up the boxes" of state government - began percolating last year after Schwarzenegger was shown a copy of the state's tangled bureaucratic organizational chart, printed on the back of a government telephone directory. Within weeks, Schwarzenegger's amazement at the scope of state bureaucracy had transformed into a campaign slogan that government is riddled with waste, then a rushed search among friends for a credible reform...