Late Flyers Explain California Republican Dysfunction

Commentary With the March 5 election a few days away, candidates, political parties, and special interests keep sending out flyers that, when examined closely, explain what’s going on. Let’s look at a flyer showing the dysfunction of the California Republican Party. The state’s dominance by the Democratic Party, which controls more than two-thirds of both the Assembly and state Senate, won’t end until the GOP gets its act together. This is for District 37 in the state Senate. It’s an open seat Republicans need for any chance of clawing back more than one-third of Senate seats. Currently they control just eight of 40 seats, or 20 percent. They need 14 seats, or 35 percent, to get over the two-thirds hump....