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Opinion: Big Democratic Majority Fosters Growing Secrecy in California Legislature
Opinion by Times of San Diego - 35m ago
 
Democrats occupy three-quarters of the seats in both houses of the state Legislature and are likely to add a few more to their superdooper majorities this year.
 
The state Capitol in Sacramento at night. Photo by Max Whittaker for CALmatters
One unfortunate consequence of that partisan stranglehold is ever-increasing hide-the-pea opacity in the legislative process.

Legislative committee hearings, which once were true forums for debating legislation, are now nothing more than pro forma rituals. Typically, those chairing the hearings give each side’s lobbyists just a few minutes to state their cases and private citizens who wish to comment are often confined to merely stating their names and positions.
 
Last week’s meetings of the Legislature’s two “appropriations committees” were prime examples of how legislative decisions have been submerged in darkness. The committee chairs declared which of hundreds of bills would be allowed to proceed and which would be held “in suspense.” There was no discussion or voting and no explanation about why some were stalled.

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Behold the one-party leftist/communist state.
Soon they'll have 80% of the legislative seats... or more.

If one is still "a Republican" there, why even bother running for state office...?