California GOP Officially Dead

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34. Arnold is at least partly responsible for the shift.

Voters thought it would be cool to have a tough guy movie star in Sacramento, and soon discovered that he was a phony who didn't know the first thing about government. Brown is a seasoned pro, and it's good to have the adults back in charge. But, things are far from perfect here. Unemployment is still unacceptably high. A computer glitch is screwing up unemployment checks for hundreds of thousands - an off the radar story. School districts remain underfunded. Class size at the university level is ridiculous. 800 students in my daughter's calculus class at UCSB. The cost of living - particularly housing - is sky high and wages are stagnant or down. Evidence of crumbling, neglected infrastructure is everywhere. Road improvement projects drag on and on. I'll be dead before the 405 work is completed through the Sepulveda Pass and it won't matter because 10 lanes through there in each direction wouldn't solve the basic problem of too many cars and not enough public transit. I am practically a lifelong Californian and, for all its faults, it's still home. Only hope that the trend toward electing Dems continues and that the politicians in Sacramento don't forget who they work for.