[ElkGroveDan]

You are wrong. AB1890(Assembly Bill 1890) was authored by (R) Jim Brulte who was also Assembly Speaker when the Republicans controlled the State Assembly in 1996....AB1890 (deregulation) was signed by (R) Republican Governor Pete Wilson Sept. 1996 to be implemented Jan. 1998 (after Wilson's term).....The rest, as they say, is history.

You are wrong too. Jim Brulte was never Assembly Speaker. Curt Pringle was the Republican Assembly Speaker in 1996 (and I never worked for a finer man).

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks to both of you. In the end, it really won't matter where this piece of legislation came from. The fact that when it was proved to be deficient, the best the Guv and legislators could do was Panic and mortgage the sate's future. The Republicans may not be clean but that didn't give GraYout A License to Kill the Economy Single-Handedly.