Sacramento is losing its legislative luster

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California voters aren't the only ones who've grown frustrated with the Legislature. Increasingly, lawmakers themselves are giving up on the statehouse.

Some are dropping reelection bids. Others are leaving for what was once viewed as a step down: local government. And finding top-flight candidates to run for legislative seats has become a challenge.

"It's not as much fun as it used to be," said Kevin Spillane, a GOP strategist who recruits Republican candidates for the state Assembly.

Blame a fiscal horizon marred by deficits as far as the eye can see. Or terms limits that have created a merry-go-round for officeholders. Add ever-hardening partisanship, abysmal public approval ratings and rank-and-file lawmakers' relative powerlessness in the deal-making process.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-exodus8-2009dec08,0,786365.story

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1. Democrats let GOP stack the deck with term limits, and requirement for 2/3 majority to pass budgets

and taxes.

California is an overwhelmingly Democratic state, but the party bent over and took it up the ass from the GOP, and we are all paying for it now.

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2. The 2/3 requirement was added into the constitution in 1933

Only Arkansas and Rhode Island have a similar requirement.

The California constitution is the 3rd longest in the world. It's time to change it.