Schwarzenegger to Close 220 State Parks

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Actually, the 2/3 vote necessary to pass any budget leaves the budget hostage to extremists of either stripe. In the case of California, those all happen to be Republicans.

BINGO! That one bit of crap is what puts this state through budget hell, year after year- the whole state gets held hostage by nutjobs on either end of the ideological spectrum.

Before I'd recall Schwarzenegger, I'd go after that - dare I say it, I'd go about removing that clause before I'd go after removing prop 8. (I want both things to happen, but I'd give more priority to removing the 2/3 vote to pass a budget first).

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Before I'd recall Schwarzenegger, I'd go after that - dare I say it, I'd go about removing that clause before I'd go after removing prop 8. (I want both things to happen, but I'd give more priority to removing the 2/3 vote to pass a budget first).

Yes, we need both, and even I daresay we need the to remove the 2/3 vote more importantly than add protections to prevent a future prop 8 scenario. But since we desperately need BOTH, I hope the nacent movement for a full-blown Constitutional Convention picks up steam ... and I'm going to put my activist muscle towards that goal.