Louis Freedberg | California Watch | Mar. 8, 2010
This has not been a good month – or week – for Californians hoping that any number of reforms will lead the state out of its current political and fiscal morass.
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Bay Area Council's Repair California, the major group promoting the idea of a constitutional convention to rewrite California's Byzantine, conflicting and often counterproductive constitution, announced that it was suspending its campaign, at least for now, because it hasn't come close to raising the funds it needs to put the required initiatives on the ballot.
That left the ball in the court of the other major California reform organization, California Forward, which has adopted a strategy of tackling reform piece by piece.