I think Henry David Thoreau would love to see this practice continued, given the heavy-handed one-sided party power we have had in California for several decades now. As would I.

Thoreau wrote:

"I heartily accept the motto, — “That government is best which governs least”...

Understood as a central consolidated power, managing and directing the various general interests of the society, all government is evil, and the parent of evil.
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A strong and active democratic government, in the common sense of the term, is an evil, differing only in degree and mode of operation, and not in nature, from a strong despotism.
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In fact, the whole history of human society and government may be safely appealed to, in evidence that the abuse of such power a thousand fold more than overbalances its beneficial use.

---> Legislation has been the fruitful parent of nine-tenths of all the evil, moral and physical, by which mankind has been afflicted since the creation of the world, and by which human nature has been self-degraded, fettered, and oppressed. <---

Government should have as little as possible to do with the general business and interests of the people. If it once undertake these functions as its rightful province of action, it is impossible to say to it ‘thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.’ It will be impossible to confine it to the public interests of the commonwealth. It will be perpetually tampering with private interests, and sending forth seeds of corruption which will result in the demoralization of the society.

[Read the above again and take a lesson my fellow Californians]

Its domestic action should be confined to the administration of justice, for the protection of the natural equal rights of the citizen and the preservation of social order.
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Henry David Thoreau 1849

On a side-note, Don't you just wish people still knew how to write like that?

Which committee chairs in the Assembly could block SB 50 after its approval by the state senate?

@SB 50 would destroy cities

*rolleyes*