It was, what? All of twenty seconds in?
MODERATOR: Let’s go to our next e-mail question. Adrian from Sacramento: To save money, legislators need to go part time. If other states can do this, why can’t we?
STEINBERG: Want me to take that?
LENO: You start off, I’ll –
STEINBERG: Okay. You know, um, I disagree with the premise of, uh, the question. California is a nation-state.
OK, yeah. Stop right there. The question at hand is whether California needs a full-time legislature; and the fact that the one that the state currently has is apparently capable of electing to lead it somebody who’d fail Civics 090 pretty much resolves that particular question, once and for all. I’d suggest that Mr. Steinberg go back to his previous career: but no, he’s pretty much been a politico from the start. Ditch digging, maybe?
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Texas has the 8th largest economy in the World
izoneguy Friday, July 10th at 10:50PM EDT (link)And our legislators are part time. They only meet every other year.
The constitutional design of the legislative branch and the political history of Texas have combined to make “the lege,” as insiders and observers call it, a peculiar institution. The Texas Constitution creates a part-time legislature that meets for a relatively brief 140 days every other year. The members, so-called citizen legislators, work within a political culture with a strong suspicion of government and a long history of accepting the involvement of wealthy business interests in politics.
So STEINBERG is full of it…..
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Oh no...I couldn't POSSIBLY
Erick Brockway Saturday, July 11th at 12:45AM EDT (link)Work for free? After all, I mean show some appreciation! Look at what all the Democrats have done for California? I mean, they worked hard trying to find a budget fix as the crash came closer and closer.
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On the subject of working for free, The 7th largest city in the nation has Council men/women and mayor that work for free
Richard Mullins Saturday, July 11th at 12:50AM EDT (link)and it’s been that way for years. I’ve always wondered what elected officials would do if they didn’t get paid(or if you like, less than $7,000).
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Steinberg is right, California IS a "nation-state"
Erick Brockway Saturday, July 11th at 12:56AM EDT (link)Zimbabwe.
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In fact California has a new banana-state flag
Erick Brockway Saturday, July 11th at 1:12AM EDT (link)“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.”
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...even
Erick Brockway Saturday, July 11th at 1:16AM EDT (link)“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.”
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Sure do miss that "preview" button
Erick Brockway Saturday, July 11th at 1:20AM EDT (link)“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.”
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Since I already fub'd this up
Erick Brockway Saturday, July 11th at 1:24AM EDT (link)Might as well keep going till I get it right!
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That does it!
Erick Brockway Saturday, July 11th at 1:25AM EDT (link)Bed. Nite.
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I don't know what it was supposed to be...
itrytobenice Saturday, July 11th at 7:48AM EDT (link)but the flag is great anyway.
Toby should play with that.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
California needs to be broken up
Britcom Saturday, July 11th at 1:34AM EDT (link)Five east coast states could fit into the same area.
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And multiply us in the Senate?
Neil Stevens Saturday, July 11th at 1:37AM EDT (link)I can see splitting into a coastal and an interior state, but not more than that.
You don’t want Senator Waters.
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I was thinking of
Britcom Saturday, July 11th at 1:43AM EDT (link)the opportunity to empower the more conservative areas of the state that get swamped by San Fan and LA. The liberal states would have less power in the house and the senate would have not just two liberal senators, but likely some conservatives senators as well, maybe even more than the liberals.
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No, no they wouldn't
Neil Stevens Saturday, July 11th at 1:44AM EDT (link)If you split the coast at all, especially the two big population centers (LA County and the SF Bay), then those areas would dominate the states they were in.
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Yes, but then...
Britcom Saturday, July 11th at 1:47AM EDT (link)have them out numbered by the other new states.
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For example...
Britcom Saturday, July 11th at 1:51AM EDT (link)on the east coast, NYC is balanced (well used to be until everyone moved to FL) by the the Upstate region which is more Republican.
If you create a SF state that expands as it moves inland (like NY does) the rural area would balance the urban area.
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California isn't that balanced
Neil Stevens Saturday, July 11th at 2:00AM EDT (link)I mean, it would really only work for *us* if you made two coastal states and several inland states, I’m talking 2-3 House seats each.
Last statewide election that went well for us was 1994, and that was brought on by a confluence of factors:
- Democrat running for Governor on the Brown name
- Republican who ran *hard* on illegal immigration
- Ballot measure also driving that issue
- National issues depressing Democrats
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And note that it was a pro-abort Republican
Neil Stevens Saturday, July 11th at 2:01AM EDT (link)So we didn’t even have that going for us.
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Hmm. Yes, a problem there.
Britcom Saturday, July 11th at 4:14AM EDT (link)How about we make LA and SF “federal districts” like DC with no voting representation?
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my district was red until 2006
Cheryl Saturday, July 11th at 2:12AM EDT (link)and I’m east of Oakland, a safe distance from Berkeley (CA11) and I do not want to be part of SF, thank you very much. If I could be a part of a red state with this really nice weather and 2 major league ball clubs, life would be good.
And
Britcom Saturday, July 11th at 1:45AM EDT (link)Smaller states would be more inclined to develop their natural resources for the benefit of the nation.
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