A State Constitutional Convention Fixing California’s Structural Governmental Problems as the Price for a Federal Bailout?

That’s the deal Joe Mathews proposes in an NYT oped:

    Most important, President Obama should press California’s elected officials and its voters — 61 percent of whom supported him last November — to make constitutional changes. Among these would be the elimination of the gridlock-creating two-thirds vote for budgets and tax increases, and new curbs on ballot initiatives that mandate spending for popular programs without identifying new tax dollars to pay for them.

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