California Is Ungovernable Only If We Tolerate It

摘要

As I write this column on March 16, 2006, the day after the "Ides of March," it's hard to overlook the similarities between what happened to Julius Caesar on March 15, 400 B.C., and yesterday when the state Legislature failed to put a comprehensive infrastructure package on the June statewide ballot. Caesar ignored a soothsayer's warning and went to the Roman Senate where he was murdered by a group of senators. What died yesterday in the Legislature was an opportunity to address with extremely willing California voters the infrastructure crisis facing our state.