{"id":8775,"date":"2009-05-06T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-06T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T17:01:43","slug":"activism-for-the-people-biking-for-23-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/06\/activism-for-the-people-biking-for-23-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Activism for the People: Biking for 2\/3 Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) isn’t necessarily the go-along to get along type. During the budget week from hell, she was a thorn in the leadership’s side. She has spent quite a bit of time to push for the repeal of 2\/3. Today, she got a little support from some of her constituents who biked up to Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Or rather, she helped out these parents, and local grassroots leaders.  This video (h\/t to Josh Richman<\/a>), while not the most solid YouTube effort ever, does do a decent job of explaining the problem with the supermajority rules. My complaint is that the message is a bit hidden, it could be more direct.<\/p>\n

If we are going to get 2\/3 repealed, we can’t let the struggles of February get forgotten. It must be present and visible and associated with the state’s failures. See your kid’s teacher getting cut? That was the 2\/3 rules.  See your elderly neighbor’s in-home support services cut? That was the 2\/3 rule. Same deal with the whole litany of disaster preparedness services. Supermajority rules lead directly to dysfunctional and inadequate government.  In a land of wildfires and earthquakes, we simply cannot afford this dysfunction.<\/p>\n

If we are to move forward in whatever new economy oozes out of the melting glacial ice of the 21st century, we can’t be hamstrung by such inefficiencies.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) isn’t necessarily the go-along to get along type. During the budget week from hell, she was a thorn in the leadership’s side. She has spent quite a bit of time to push for the repeal of 2\/3. Today, she got a little support from some of her constituents who biked up to Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Or rather, she helped out these parents, and local grassroots leaders.  This video (h\/t to Josh Richman<\/a>), while not the most solid YouTube effort ever, does do a decent job of explaining the problem with the supermajority rules. My complaint is that the message is a bit hidden, it could be more direct.<\/p>\n

If we are going to get 2\/3 repealed, we can’t let the struggles of February get forgotten. It must be present and visible and associated with the state’s failures. See your kid’s teacher getting cut? That was the 2\/3 rules.  See your elderly neighbor’s in-home support services cut? That was the 2\/3 rule. Same deal with the whole litany of disaster preparedness services. Supermajority rules lead directly to dysfunctional and inadequate government.  In a land of wildfires and earthquakes, we simply cannot afford this dysfunction.<\/p>\n

If we are to move forward in whatever new economy oozes out of the melting glacial ice of the 21st century, we can’t be hamstrung by such inefficiencies.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,21],"tags":[3366,1188,7239,60],"class_list":["post-8775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-21","tag-3366","tag-1188","tag-7239","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}