re: #169 Great White Snark

Um, no my point actually is blaming the party lets the people off the hook. I upset the GOP assumptions by showing being in Dem controlled state and city provided no insulation from many of those same ills. On prop 13,it’s not a fair evaluation until you see that Californians still pay well above average taxes to the ste and more local agencies than most, even with prop 13 in force. I like prop 13 for homes and family farms. Commercial property like factories and warehouse should not be covered.

You are painting with more broad brushes while at the same time saying that blaming the party lets people off the hook.

How many of those years with Dem control were with a super majority? A Democrat governor? Sure, that exists now, and CA is digging itself out of the hole left by several previous administrations.

I do, however, pay attention to the fact that no matter what the “people” say, the party also seems to matter an awful lot when they show up in DC or Sacramento or wherever the politics are happening, because that is how politics works in this country. Sometimes people make compromises to the party in order to get shit done.

And no, both parties are not the same.