Dan Walters, dean of the Sacramento press corps, laments the state of our politics in this state:
If we don’t do something, California politics will continue to deteriorate into a game for rich people, ideological warriors, professional insiders and very narrow interests, and public policy will reflect their priorities, not those of a fast-growing and fast-changing state.
He offers a concise laundry list of reforms, all sensible, including ideas that will help bring more moderate candidates into the process and reform the incumbency-protection racket that has been legislative district definition since Phil Burton’s day. Dan’s well worth reading.
We agree on something. Who would have thought?!?
Stopped clock and all that.