The real problem, in California and everywhere else, is the idiots we send to the state and federal legislature!!!! If they're in office more then 1 term they seem to forget that they are there for the benefit of the MAJORITY of voters who put them in office and there only loyalty is to the highest bidder!!!!! The same bunch of "good old boys" in charge year after year doesn't even resemble a government of the people, for the people, and by the people as the constitution intended.... It only leads to a government that is for sale to the highest bidder.....

Around here we keep a couple of spies in the state legislature who watch for what the heck is coming up for vote... Doesn't really take a whole lot of phone calls and meetings to get down to the real answer of who is doing what, and which lobbiests are buying the votes.... A good editorial or any type of article that gets in front of the voters will sometimes resolve the problem.... Of course, the whole population of our state is less then that of Orange County---don't know if it works on a larger scale or not?????? But I do know, regardless of who the state legislator is, once he's told that this is going in to print and the voters will read about it, they tend to "adjust" their position..... After all, the last thing a politician wants to see in print is the truth!!!!!!