Another issue with California.

The governor appears content to never get a budget done and blame the welfare cheats for why it can happen. We should cut the budget, because there is someone out there getting a dollar for not doing anything. (Ironic, isn't it?) Straight out of a very old playbook, but it's still effective.

Okay, the rules say you need 2/3 of the legislature to approve a budget. Some of you might be thinking, so let's kick a couple of these bums out of office and we can get to 2/3. That should solve our problem.

Well, that's not really going to happen and here's the reason why? State legislature draw up the voting districts. And they've drawn in up so that everyone in the legislature has a "safe" seat. So even if state senator A gets caught with his pants down, he's still going to get replaced with someone from the same party.

so we're never going to 2/3 and we're really functioning in a perverted form of democracy. individual choice on representation means very little.

i don't know when this gerrymandering thing gets solved, and it probably takes years, but maybe it still happens before California gets a functional budget in place.