Move Afoot to Change California's Constitution

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Next year Californians once again may be asked to go to the polls to do the job traditionally reserved for lawmakers; but this time it would be to create the biggest overhaul to state government in more than a century.

As the perpetual state of legislative deadlock seems to drag on year after year in Sacramento, a movement is growing in the rest of the state to establish a constitutional convention to rewrite parts of California's constitution and put an end to that deadlock.

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Move Afoot to Change California's Constitution

"Everybody wants to throw the bums in Sacramento out, but what they don't think about is the next set of bums will be working under the same system," said Melanie de La Grange, spokeswoman for the Bay Area Council, a business-oriented policy organization leading the movement for a constitutiona...

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