Constitutional Convention?

The Bay Area Council is sponsoring a California Constitutional Convention Summit in Sacramento tomorrow. Robert over at Calitics wants to know...Is it Time To Re-write California’s Constitution?

California's constitution has been amended frequently - over 500 times by some accounts - and included an effort in the late 1960s to modernize the document. Still, it has become clear that California's government is broken and unable to meet the needs of one of the worst crises our state has ever faced.

The economic crisis, drought, an energy and environmental crisis that seem to have faded a bit from the public mind but are still very much here - all of these problems are dumped into the lap of a government hamstrung by a conservative veto and a series of rules, many of which date from the last 30 years, designed specifically to prevent government from meeting the people's needs.