Thursday, April 5, 2012

Politicians and Term Limits Per Dan Walters

The whole discussion over term limits covers little and extends less hope for a political paralysis that has undermined any necessary reform in Sacramento.

Moving the number of years open for a legislator, either in the Assembly or in the State Senate, will not overcome the lack of expertise commanded by neophyte politicians and entrenched incumbents.

The Sacramento status quo springs from strong labor unions, weak-willed Democrats, and a Republican minority which has refused to soften its stance on social issues, putting party purity ahead of competitive candidacy.

From 1994 on, the dominant liberal stratum in government, from city to state hall, has demonized the opposition with empty cat-calls of racism and xenophobia, despite the rising unemployment rates in the Central Valley, the agricultural corridors of the state, and throughout the service sectors in urban areas.

Rotating old partisan hacks out and replacing them with a set of easily-swayed party followers only grants more power to the more informed and well-read, i. e. the lobbyists whose growing staff and stature in Sacramento assures them greater power and authority to persuade and promote their own agendas at the expense of the people who our elected representatives are purported to serve.

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