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Five big fixes for the California Crackup |
5. Make every vote count, end partisan gerrymandering, increase political competition, and create more substantive campaigns by replacing single-member legislative districts with multi-member districts elected by proportional representation.
4. Improve representation by creating a unicameral legislature with smaller districts, so that legislators are closer to the people and do more of their own work.
3. End fiscal gridlock, restore accountability, and return flexibility to government by emptying California's constitution of supermajority vote requirements for budgets and policy mandates for spending and taxes.
2. Make direct democracy more direct by giving voters both more choices (by allowing the legislature to place a counter-proposal on the ballot next to each initiative) and more power (by making it easier for voters to overturn legislation via referendum).
1. Move power out of Sacramento and restore authority and accountability to local communities by requiring that spending and revenue-producing decisions for each program be made at the same level of government, with fiscal rewards for success and costs for failure.
