Bay Area as a City State

Re:Bay Area as a City State by krakensden on Sunday July 11, 2010 @05:05PM (#1506120)

Indeed. Honestly that seems like the biggest problem with the plan- most local politicians and representatives are complete nobodies, they get elected by riding the coattails of presidential and maybe the senatorial elections.

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Re:Bay Area as a City State by natrius on Sunday July 11, 2010 @10:55PM (#1506640)

That's because the media doesn't do a good job of informing people about what state and local politicians actually do. Luckily, there's a way to fix that. At the Texas Tribune, we're aiming to solve that problem, and there are similar California-based organizations.

http://californiawatch.org/

http://www.baycitizen.org/

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