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...election and nobody ran? California enacted term limitations in 1990 amid strong sentiment that the longer politicians are in office, the less responsive they are to constituents' concerns. Some people are looking to place the same sort of limits on the U.S. Congress. The California law restricts state assemblymen to three terms and state senators to two terms, and it slashed legislative budgets 38%. This year, in the first election cycle under the new rules, party regulars complain that they are having trouble getting qualified people to stand for election. As one state legislator put it, "Who's going...
...that more than 600 legislative staffers lost their jobs, Speaker Willie Brown ascended the rostrum of the ornate, walnut-and-velvet California state assembly chamber and, with a trembling of his smartly tailored shoulders, broke down and wept. Veteran assemblymen who have known him for 25 years as a tough-minded political chieftain were amazed. "It's a tragedy that we have to let these people go," Brown sobbed. "This place will not be the same...
California's voters set the cuts in motion last November by narrowly passing Proposition 140, a ballot initiative that hit legislators with a double whammy: it not only decreed maximum terms of six years for assemblymen and eight for senators, but more immediately ordered a cut of nearly 40% in the $190 million legislative operating budget. Last week, as a wave of mass layoffs was announced, the senate shed 200 of its nearly 1,000 employees, and the assembly dropped 440 of its staff of 1,500. Gone, along with clerks and secretaries, were some 300 policy experts; 15 subcommittees...
Should the truth-in-packaging principle that protects consumers in stores apply to rock concerts too? New Jersey assemblymen Neil Cohen and Joseph Mecca think so. They have introduced a bill that would require promoters to inform fans when an artist gyrates to canned music instead of real singing. Lip syncing has become routine at concerts by such big names as Milli Vanilli, New Kids on the Block and Janet Jackson...
...government has tried to still its critics by harassing the opposition. Kim Dae Jung has been under house arrest for the past five weeks, his home surrounded night and day by dozens of policemen. At least a dozen R.D.P. assemblymen are also under indictment or investigation, many on charges for thinly disguised political reasons. The new party has not even found a landlord willing to rent it space for a headquarters, forcing Kim Young Sam to joke that he "may have to pitch an extra-large tent on the bank of the Han River" for offices...