Move afoot to change California’s constitution
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San Gabriel Valley Tribune: Next year Californians once again may be asked to go to the polls to do the job traditionally reserved for lawmakers; but this time it would be to create the biggest overhaul to state government in more than a century. As the perpetual state of legislative deadlock seems to drag on year after year in Sacramento, a movement is growing in the rest of the state to establish a constitutional convention to rewrite parts of California's constitution and put an end to that deadlock. "Everybody wants to throw the bums in Sacramento out, but what they don't think about is the next set of bums will be working under the same system," said Melanie de La Grange, spokeswoman for the Bay Area Council, a business-oriented policy organization leading the movement for a constitutional convention. Term limits, the two-thirds majority required for passage of state budgets, the myriad initiatives that flood every ballot, open primaries, and the relationship between the state and local governments are a few of the things a constitutional convention could address. But precisely what such a convention would look like - and perhaps most controversially, who would be invited to attend as a delegate to restructure the system - could make or break whether it has the support necessary to succeed. To answer these questions, the Bay Area Council and a group of organizations from both ends of the political spectrum are in the process of holding a series of town hall meetings to answer these questions.
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