{"id":2607,"date":"2002-11-11T04:23:41","date_gmt":"2002-11-11T11:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/11\/reforming-california-politics\/"},"modified":"2002-11-11T04:23:41","modified_gmt":"2002-11-11T11:23:41","slug":"reforming-california-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/11\/reforming-california-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming California politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/story\/5147949p-6157114c.html\">Dan Walters,<\/a> dean of the Sacramento press corps, laments the state of our politics in this state:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If we don&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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&#8217;s day. Dan&#8217;s well worth reading.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Walters, dean of the Sacramento press corps, laments the state of our politics in this state: If we don&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/11\/reforming-california-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reforming California politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-G3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}