The Legislative Dictatorship in California

As many of you know because of gerrymandering, the last California state legislative elections had no incumbents losing.With 100% retention,California laws look like Fidel Castro style edicts.Steven Greenhut reminds of that California looks more like a dictatorship than you can imagine:

Earlier this month the state Senate's dictatorial Appropriations Committee chairwoman, Democrat Carole Migden of San Francisco, marched over to the Assembly floor to watch a vote on her bill to add new regulatory requirements for cosmetic manufacturers.

With the bill one vote shy of passage, she went to Republican Guy Houston's desk and pushed the "yes" button so that a vote would be electronically recorded. The normally mild-mannered Assemblyman Bob Huff, the Diamond Bar Republican who sits next to Houston, saw this and had to push Migden's arm away, then undo the vote. Huff told me that Migden's excuse - that she thought the desk was a Democrat's - is bogus. She has a reputation for doing this, he said, and even if it had been a Democrat's desk, a senator has no right to cast a vote in the Assembly chambers. Assemblyman Todd Spitzer said Migden might have committed a felony, although he argued for a reprimand rather than prosecution. Even that's unlikely, since Midgen is chairwoman of the committee that dispenses the cash.

Even that ugly incident is nothing compared with this reality: Many Californians surely believe that their Legislature is busy with the important work of governing this state of 35 million people and dealing with the serious economic and management issues facing it. Instead, the lawmaking process actually is consumed with the current enthusiasms and whims of the Democratic psyche.

Over time all check and balances have broken down.How legitimate are the laws of California with this sort of behavior going on? Read the whole piece just to find out what these dangerous cranks want to do to the state of California.