California: Legislature

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner's announcement yesterday that he's going to be a gung-ho supporter of an initiative to make the Legislature part-time is one more profoudingly depressing sign that California is on the brink of blowing a tremendous opportunity...

The legislature and the Governor appoint all the members of the UC Regents.  The Regents vote as those that appointed them want.  In the past few years we have found gross negligence, wasted money, high pay for bad performance and in general two bit corruption running the UC system.

The public is angry.  So the legislature is blaming the Regents--not the owners of the Regents, the legislature, themselves.

This canard is going further--now the legislature is smearing the Regents and demanding they, the legislature run it--as if they have not been running it from the beginning.

Oh, if the legislature was upset with the UC management they could always appoint other people, or on a yearly basis control the budget of the UC, including pay scales.

This is as phony as Prop.1A--from the same crowd.  The problem is not the Regents, it is the legislature.

Bruce Maiman has a great op-ed in the Sac Bee on Karen Bass' absurd likening of her loudest critics to "terrorists": She's made this claim before, but at the risk of being overly hyperbolic and dramatically incredulous, may I ask...

This is from a Saturday Q&A; with the Assembly speaker in the L.A. Times: Q: How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature's work? A: The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now...