The feeling is one of revolt

[audrey_girl]

“The feeling is one of revolt,” said John Grubb, the campaign director for Repair California, a coalition behind a pair of initiatives to call a constitutional convention. “And come January, they will start negotiating the budget again, and there will be more fear and loathing. The feeling here is that California state government is broken, and we need not a little fix, but a big fix.”

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fyi:


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/10calif.html

As someone who remembers the last time this happened (Prop 13 and the rise of Reagan), I get the feeling this is all starting again...

[c1ue]

Re: The feeling is one of revolt

I wasn't yet in CA in the '70s - was CA looking at massive deficits as we are today?

Or was it mostly an anger over rising tax burdens despite a state government more or less on an even keel?