A democratic revolution is brewing in California in the form of a Constitutional Convention that reformers are working to put on the ballot for November this year. More citizens every day are realizing that a clean slate - a fundamental break with today's dysfunction - is the only way to fix the messthat California's broken government has inflicted on its people.
The state has fallen far and fast. Our public schools, once the nation's best, are now among the worst. Our crumbling transportation and water systems were the envy of the world just a generation ago. Our business climate is ranked among the worst in the United States. California's prisons are so overcrowded that the state must turn loose tens of thousands of felons into its neighborhoods. Our higher education system - the once proud jewel of our economic success - is witnessing an academic talent flight, slashing the number of students it will accept and socking them with crushing fee increases.