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    Default California voters get even with Sacramento, instead of getting mad!

    In our election on February 5th, Proposition 93, which was deceptively named as being about term limits instead of increasing the terms of 42 state politicians, went down to defeat,

    http://www.flashreport.org/blog.php?...08020610524501

    This has set off quite a political scramble now, and the behavior of one of the public employee unions should be noted here,

    http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/736231.html

    Not that the termed-out politicians will suffer all that much. They'll either run for a local office elsewhere in the state, the state senate if termed out of the state assembly, or become a high-paid lobbyist in Sacramento for one or more special interest groups.
    Last edited by PhaedrusZ; 02-25-2008 at 07:59 AM. Reason: added info

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