re: #88 Obdicut
I think my point about LA is close to indisputable.
State level-The Governors office is famously weak when it fights the legislature here.
One way to see this is compare Arnold s first term rhetoric and his winning second term rhetoric. Now Jerry Brown is learning it’s a very different game than when he first took office so long ago. He is being thwarted regularly. The legislature runs this state in many critical ways. Some of that is power radiating off budget and public safety policies of course.