Bee Editorial Endorses Bad Government Out of Petulance

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento

‘We’ll show you’, says today's BEE editorial. Get this nonsense:

“As this (editorial) page has stated numerous times, these (term) limits are far too tight, particularly in the Assembly”.

With that opinion, you would assume the BEE would support Proposition 93.

“Lawmakers are often termed out just as they gain expertise in particular policy areas”.

With that opinion, you would assume the BEE would support Proposition 93.

Instead, the BEE chooses to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. They would allow legislators to serve 8-10 years in the Assembly and 12 in the Senate. Odd that the BEE didn’t pay for the signatures needed to make this option real rather than the product of editorial writers’ imaginations.

But the BEE wouldn’t support even their own reform unless it was made “conditional on passage of redistricting reform”. You know, a change rejected by voters five times – the last two years ago.