That whole agreement in California between the two parties to minimize the number of competitive districts is why they have so many batshit progressives AND batshit conservatives. Ed Royce's district is surrounded on all sides except one by D+10 or higher districts. He's won eleven consecutive elections.
Though we'll have to see if the districts drawn from the 2012 reform will shuffle things out since some people just won by being incumbents.
Even their moderates are goofy. Senator/Governor Pete Wilson was pro-choice and anti-immigrant and had a variety of weird 90's views. Gray Davis and Arnaalllddd went against their parties on all kinds of stuff. (Yet both were "dream All-Star candidates" for their parties except for that one problem here and there.) Jerry Brown can be an epic fiscal hawk and also have some wacky pie-in-the-sky idea like building a space elevator to Mars in the same thought.
Then you've got Gavin Newsom hanging around still. The "hard-right conservative" who was destroying America by giving out gay marriages in San Francisco.
Why did Gray Davis get such a quick boot, tho? Ahnold too stronk?
Ah, electricity crisis.
holy shit what a mess
That was like the nail in the coffin for him. The guy went from MODEL DEMOCRAT, FUTURE PRESIDENT to FUCK HE'LL MURDER US ALL basically overnight alienating all sorts of would be allies on almost everything imaginable. While actually not really doing anything different.
Funnily enough the same thing happened to Arnold. Which is why he tried to do those ballot initiatives thinking he still "had the people" behind him.
California is great. Home of Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan! (And no other Presidents...though Nixon was the only one born there.)
