Instead, he uttered the same lies about state government and proposed the same nostrums as many of his predecessors: Californians are overtaxed and underserved, the budget can be balanced by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, etc. Like everyone else who has made these claims, he never delivered on his promise. Full Story »
Posted by Chris Finnie
This piece gives what are probably good explanations of what went wrong and what solutions might be. But what it doesn't note is that all of the items seen as needing to be changed were originally approved by voters. They were responding with what they saw as solutions to perceived problems at the time (including replacing Davis with Schwartznegger). What the article doesn't address is how to reframe the debate so that voters can be convinced to change what they once put in place. .
