(01-18) 19:59 PST — If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger calls a special election this year, California voters might be forced to make the hard choices on the budget and taxes that the Legislature won’t.
The voters of California have already voted representatives to the Assembly and Senate. If these elected officials are unwilling or incapable of doing their job and the voters will be required to vote on the actual budget measures through yet another costly special election, then it should be accompanied by another measure which would dissolve the state senate and require the Assembly to be convened on a part time basis. If we are going to shrink the size of the government in California, let’s start at the top and effectively fire 40 state senators and their extensive staffs.
I’ve never understood the merits of having a bicameral legislature at the state level and clearly in the case of California it is not working.