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Re:The Not-So-Golden State of California by Andys on Saturday June 06, 2009 @11:53PM (#645504)
I'm not sure about the 'citizen democracy' part... Did citizen democracy come up with the crazy electricity market system?

(I'm not familiar enough with California - But if it did, you got what you deserved :-))

Re:The Not-So-Golden State of California by anigbrowl on Sunday June 07, 2009 @12:05AM (#645512)
I was more thinking of the property tax caps (which may not have been such a good idea, but are hard to change) and the fact that you can get just about any old BS onto the ballot with 500,000 signatures, which you can collect for 1-2 million. Meantime, it takes 2/3 of the legislature to pass a budget and it's been late something like 17 out of the past 18 years. I do approve of the idea of ballot initiatives, but between one thing and another it's made our state terribly unwieldy to govern.