Have you ever asked people how they vote for state reps? It's an interesting experiment. A large percentage of them vote for the incumbent because it's a name they recognize. That's their criteria. Or because that incumbent got a local project funded. Another large percentage vote for the candidate from the party they belong to. They forget that if they moved to CA from another part of the country, Democrat doesn't mean the same thing here. Here, it means outright take-from-the-masses-to-disperse-as-we-see-fit Socialism.

Also, if you look at poll data, people give extremely low ratings to the CA legislature as a whole, but like their guy. They don't realize they are perpetuating the problem.

I honestly believe you should have to prove you know what's going on in the State before you are allowed to cast a vote. I don't care which way you vote, as long as it is an INFORMED vote.

California has the government that it wants. Not coincidentally, it has the government it deserves.

When someone has a spending problem – a shopaholic – the last thing you should do is give them yet another credit card. Removing the 2/3 majority requirement for raising taxes would give Bass the ability to take every dollar you earn and give it to her favorite projects. Stop spending when you're out of money!!

A
helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a 'Save the Whales' hat and a 'To
Hell with Bush T-shirt,' was screaming while struggling frantically and
thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly.

As
the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One
quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest. The other two reached up and
pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear's grasp. Then using
long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it
onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat
in the back seat.

As
they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. 'I give you my
blessing for your brave actions!' he told them. 'I heard there was a bitter
hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic environmental activists but now
I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true.'

As
the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies 'Who was that guy?'

'It
was the Pope,' another replied. 'He's in direct contact with heaven and has
access to all wisdom.'

'Well,'
the logger said, 'he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn't know squat
about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go
back to Massachusetts and get another one?'

So, presented with a politician who overreacts to voter activism by calling it "terrorism", your response is to one-up her by calling for the hanging of politicians?

Are you familiar with the concept of irony?

And those darned kids and their dog!

Hmmm…white men are the overwhelming majority? Let's see, non-Latino whites make up about 43% of the CA population, and let's assume males make up 50% of the population. By my calculations, that means white males make up 21.5% of CA's population. I think Karen needs to look up the definition of "majority".

Here's another nugget: "My job is to protect programs, but I can't be unrealistic and say we're not going to cut." And here I thought her job was to represent her constituents and maybe protect them, instead of the programs that all the tax and spend Democrats have foisted on the state.