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Good News, continued
One
bright spot in term limits, he said, was that the new wave of
politicians moving into the statehouse includes greater numbers of
former local politicians and fewer former aides of legislators.
Being secure
in their political bases can reduce the need for dependence on
Sacramento special interest groups, he said. And experiencing from
the ground level California's system of state-local finance in the
post-Proposition13 tax atmosphere is bound to hasten reform in
that area, he said, because the new politicians will understand
firsthand the need for change. And finally, they are just less
partisan.
All this
offers new hope to proponents of regionalism, because the new
state-level politician doesn’t suffer from quite the same
structural barriers as the old.
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