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.

Posted by Rick Hasen at May 22, 2009 08:00 AM