California's Ugly Skin Game: White-Bread Repubs, White-Hating Dems

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"It should be a ripping good show in Sacramento in 2005, since the only place more torn by debilitating race, gender and cultural tension than the California State Assembly and State Senate might be a high school cafeteria seething with rival gangs.

I realized this when I saw two lists of recent appointments announced by Republican and Democrat leaders to top jobs and committee chairmanships coveted by state senators and assembly members in Sacramento.

To sum up, the Republicans are wallowing in the 1980's, still knuckle-dragging with a crew of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men, only slowly adding women and minorities. Equally out of touch, in a different way, are the Democrats, stuck at an imaginary 1960's peace protest where Latinos, blacks, Asians and gays control things---and icky WASP men are quashed."

More at: http://www.jillstewart.net/php/issues/issue010505.php

Any thoughts on this article? It's intended to be provocative, of course, but does it reflect your view of the California political parties?