Budget proposals an easier sell than constitutional convention? - ContraCostaTimes.com:
"SACRAMENTO — Bob Hertzberg, the former state Assembly speaker who now co-chairs the government-reform coalition California Forward, says he is convinced he has a pair of ballot measures on reform that voters can get behind.
And government fixes would happen at least a year sooner than anything that comes out of a proposed constitutional convention, he said.
A pair of ballot measures — being pushed by the Bay Area Council — would create a constitutional convention, but even if it's successful, it wouldn't be until 2012 that changes would begin to take effect.
'I have a lot of respect for what they're doing — I see the energy they're creating,' said Hertzberg from his Los Angeles law office. 'But I'm concerned about the speed of the market.'"
"SACRAMENTO — Bob Hertzberg, the former state Assembly speaker who now co-chairs the government-reform coalition California Forward, says he is convinced he has a pair of ballot measures on reform that voters can get behind.
And government fixes would happen at least a year sooner than anything that comes out of a proposed constitutional convention, he said.
A pair of ballot measures — being pushed by the Bay Area Council — would create a constitutional convention, but even if it's successful, it wouldn't be until 2012 that changes would begin to take effect.
'I have a lot of respect for what they're doing — I see the energy they're creating,' said Hertzberg from his Los Angeles law office. 'But I'm concerned about the speed of the market.'"