Aside from calling for a Constitutional convention or a special election to eliminate the 2/3 requirement for budget and taxes, the best thing we can do is make the Yacht Party pay for putting our state in this position by defeating them at the ballot box.  There are a number of seats that we have the ability to capture this year, when we will be helped by increased voter registration and expected increases in turnout thanks to the Obama campaign on the top of the ticket.  

Much like the DCCC (House of Representatives) and the DSCC (Senate), there is an organization called the DLCC (Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee) that exists to elect Democrats in state legislatures all over the country.  They are currently accepting submissions on races that they can inject money into in 2008 to make a difference.  Obviously, achieving 2/3 in a bellweather state like California, giving us the ability to enact far-reaching legislation that will affect the whole country, should be atop the DLCC’s agenda.

So I invite everyone to write to the DLCC at this website and list some of the winnable seats here in California that they ought to attend to.  Examples include:

AD-80 (Manuel Perez)

AD-10 (Alyson Huber)

AD-78 (Marty Block)

AD-15 (Joan Buchanan)

AD-26 (John Eisenhut)

SD-19 (Hannah-Beth Jackson)

We’ll be coming out shortly with the Calitics editorial board recommended list of candidates shortly, but getting on the DLCC’s radar screen would be pretty critical as well.  So go to the DLCC action page and write in some of these candidates.  Thanks.

…I should mention that you can nominate multiple candidates at the site, so, you know, do that.  Write in all of them!