From the Daily Bulletin:

A projected $21 billion deficit over the next 18 months and failure to prepare the budget on time have caused some to contend it is time for the state Legislature to be demoted.

An initiative to reduce the state legislature to part time – meeting no more than 95 days out of the year – has been gaining much attention.

Citizens for California Reform have been collecting signatures for nearly a month to get the initiative, called “The Citizen Legislature Act,” on the November 2010 ballot.

“We’re a very very different state and I think ideally you want to try to get in representatives who are truly representatives of the area they represent and that they’re accessible to their constituents – that they can be a trusted citizen Legislature that lives and works under the rules they make,” said Gabriella Holt, president of Citizens for California Reform.

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