There are 2 ways to get a balanced budget: Raise Taxes OR Cut Services If you strip the 2/3rds rule at the moment, you'll see taxes go up. And you know what

There are 2 ways to get a balanced budget: Raise Taxes OR Cut Services If you strip the 2/3rds rule at the moment, you'll see taxes go up. And you know what party high taxes are great for, republicans. You'll get a more active republican party and you'll be able to win more seats, especially after the taxes go up. Most importantly, you'll get fiscal republicans running for office, instead of social republicans, and independent and some dems are much more likely to defect to social republicans than moral republicans. So if you ditch the 2/3rds rule, you'll get 4 years of democratic rule, and you'll have a good shot at gaining republican control of the house after that. Remember, California is not the liberal mecca people portray it as in the East Coast media. It's a very purple state which has some very republican ideas widely popular in the state along with some very relaxed republicans which have wide voter approval. It's the state of Regan, that keeps hiring republican governors for some reason. While right now, most of the legislators are democrats, if the 2/3rds rule ended, republicans could actually win the legislature. And more importantly, BOTH parties could get working budgets that don't leave the state doing wacky things with furloghs, random shutdowns, and paying people in scrip. Remember, killing the 2/3rds rule also allows repubs to be repubs. The teachers unions and prisons unions in Cali will support republicans as well as long as they're on board with cuts. Republicans now are in the tenuous position of having to support organized labor to get elected. That's a very odd message to support in today's republican party. It's just people who are terrified of the other side rather than terrified of broken government who keep the state locked up in the status quo instead of in the 2 stable working states it could be in.