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Bee Editorial Endorses Bad Government Out of Petulance
By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento
‘We’ll show you’, says today's BEE editorial. Get this nonsense:
“As this (editorial) page has stated numerous times, these (term) limits are far too tight, particularly in the Assembly”.
With that opinion, you would assume the BEE would support Proposition 93.
“Lawmakers are often termed out just as they gain expertise in particular policy areas”.
With that opinion, you would assume the BEE would support Proposition 93.
Instead, the BEE chooses to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. They would allow legislators to serve 8-10 years in the Assembly and 12 in the Senate. Odd that the BEE didn’t pay for the signatures needed to make this option real rather than the product of editorial writers’ imaginations.
But the BEE wouldn’t support even their own reform unless it was made “conditional on passage of redistricting reform”. You know, a change rejected by voters five times – the last two years ago.
A quid pro quo like that, if suggested by a lobbyist, would mean jail time.
The BEE should stop acting like frustrated deal makers and provide counsel to voters on whether the ballot measure before them is good or not.
To say that it is good, but that voters should vote no until something better comes along that is attached to another irrelevant ballot measure that voters oppose is to be arrogant, petulant and stupid. That’s a difficult combination, and I suppose we should congratulate the BEE for its achievement.
Bill Cavala was Deputy Director of the Assembly Speaker’s Office of Member Services where he worked for over 30 years.
He attended undergraduate and graduate school in the 1960’s and received a doctorate in political science at UC Berkeley. He taught political science at UC Berkeley during the 1970's while he worked part-time for the State Assembly.
Cavala left teaching at UC Berkeley and went to work for Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in 1981 until his tenure as Speaker ended in 1995, and he has worked for his five successors as Speaker up to and including Speaker Fabian Nunez.
Mr. Cavala manages election campaigns for Democratic candidates.
Comments
NO NO ON 93
Posted by: delan at January 13, 2008 04:26 PM
I favor the elimination of term limits -- so I am voting against Prop 93 because it tightens those limits (12 years instead of 14), and does so in a cynical attempt to prolong the dominance of Don Perata and Fabian Nunez, with the backing of the many flunkies who do not have the independence to tell them no.
Posted by: David at January 13, 2008 11:40 PM
Gov. to back term-limit changes
By Jordan Rau | 4:34 p.m.
Schwarzenegger's support of Proposition 93 would be an about-face from his earlier stance on the issue.
What'd I tell you?
Posted by: publius at January 14, 2008 05:10 PM
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