When voters in California
approved term limits, do you think this is what they had in mind?

When
voters mandated term limits for state politicians in 1990, their hope in part
was that citizen-statesmen would rise up and political dinosaurs would fall…

Instead,
freshman politicians arrive in Sacramento already contemplating their next
moves, he said.

And
move they do. Just look at the November ballot: Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante wants
to be insurance commissioner; Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, a Democrat
who once represented San Joaquin County in the state Legislature, is running
against McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, in a race to replace Bustamante; Attorney
General Bill Lockyer wants to be treasurer; and former Gov. and Oakland Mayor
Jerry Brown is running against state Sen. Chuck Poochigian to replace Lockyer.

I think Clint Eastwood, a
Californian of note, had a line in one of his movies along these lines…

“Most
of these people don't just dry up and go away,”

Gotta be like going to an
exotic restaurant for the first time – you think you know what you’re
ordering, but then…read
on here.