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Another example: my Assemblyman was hard-driving and energitic; rapidly rose in the party ranks. But after he got elected to his 3rd & last term he just went dormant.<br> <br> A thought experiment: let's say you have a gardener whom you pay monthly at the beginning of the month. At the beginning of one month you pay him and tell him this will be his last month. How hard is he going to work on your garden that last month? Why do you think an elected official has any different human nature, especially when the stakes run into millions of dollars?<br> <br> The only thing making them pay ANY attention to the voters is the threat they won't be reelected. Remove that incentive and you have California. (OK, OK, I'll concede that's a generalization not fair to be applied to EVERY elected official but it's true for WAY too many.)
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