Lisa Vorderbrueggen | Contra Costa Times | Mar. 5, 2010
California's governance reform movement is stumbling under a few body blows but its advocates remain solidly in the ring.
"We've seen the collapse of some of the most high-profile efforts, the ones that have captured the most attention because they swung for the fences," said Thad Kousser, a visiting scholar at Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West.
"But there are a lot of bills and initiatives still out there, that if added together and they pass, would be a fundamental revision of the (state) constitution."