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- Support a part time legislature.
- Place term limits upon registered lobbyists and career legislative staff.
- Require comprehensive review and reauthorization of departmental authority and statutes no less than once every 10 years.
- Decentralize Sacramento, requiring legislators to telecommute to legislative sessions from their districts.
- Reform California’s initiative process, creating a higher bar to qualify for the ballot including but not limited to meeting a heightened signature threshold within two separate signature cycles and limiting placement of the initiative on the federal November ballot every two years.
- Eliminate defined benefit pensions for new public employees. Offer existing employees the opportunity to convert discounted pension liabilities to exclusive priority shares of enterprise zone capital fund (see Economy and Trade).
- Discourage votes by legislators where a conflict of interest exist (i.e. contributions from public employee unions).
- Discourage legislators' campaign committees from accepting more than half of their contributions from any public employee union non-district resident or special interest group over which the legislator has substantial authority or jurisdiction.
- Require the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) to create readily available single page printed and internet profiles on each candidate, contributor and election throughout the state to heighten public transparency of political influence, campaign finance and record of activity similar to that provided by the Center for Responsive Politics.
- Require state legislators’ Sacramento staff to register with the FPPC. Limit registered lobbyists and legislators’ Sacramento staff to no more than five year terms and mandatory two year sabbaticals between, respectively as either general lobbyists, district staff or in the event of a transition to or from a registered lobbyist or legislative staff.
- Repeal term limits on members of the state legislature.
- Support initiatives such as that proposed by the California Action Networkto rewrite the state Constitution if budget is not balanced AND real tax burden reduced by no less than 10% in the next 2 years.
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