Yea we have our share of Political Corruption & Tax & Spend type Libiots in Govt. here for damn sure... Follow the money trail, it will lead you to the crooks every damn time... Yes we have a plethora of them, especially on the larger inner-cites & coastal regions around SF & LA mainly, with all the populous & freeloading masses... For those of you that don't actually know anything about the "Real California"... You go a little east, south or north, about 30-50 miles of either of them areas, you have a regular bunch of Independent thinkers or conservative minded good people... But unfortunately they/we are far outnumbered, that's all the country hears about is Liberal-Land, by it's such a small part of the land mass here, that's maybe 15% of Calif., "but" that has the most votes & inner-city masses. living off the govt. tit, rampant with political corruption... It's not all of California, just a small part