Comments on: Does California need a new Constitution? http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/02/24/does-california-need-a-new-constitution/ Politics in the Bay Area and beyond Sun, 19 May 2013 05:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: CAW916 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/02/24/does-california-need-a-new-constitution/comment-page-1/#comment-3016 CAW916 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:28:56 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=5400#comment-3016 I think we should do the following:

1. Ban all political parties.
2. Ban campaign contributions from special interest groups.
3. Make legislature positions unpaid volunteers.
4. Repeal the Dills Act.
5. Establish performance-based lifetime civil service employment.
6. Establish a financial code of ethics for all lawmakers
7. Require financial management training for all politicians in government.
8. Only native born Californians can be Governor.
9. Most importantly, ban the Big 5. Five people should never have this much power.

Sounds like a good start to me.

]]> By: John W http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/02/24/does-california-need-a-new-constitution/comment-page-1/#comment-3015 John W Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:45:03 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=5400#comment-3015 We are in deeper trouble than we even know. We need the reforms, and a constitutional convention is definitely the way to go about it. But, if we can’t even get a budget done, I don’t see how we get to any agreement on an overhauled constitution even if there is a convention. As a kid in the 60′s, I lived through a constitutional convention in Michigan. It was successful. The leader who made it happen was George Romney (the father), who then became a very progressive Republican governor.

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