Life and death of Philip Burton. Deukmejian and the Second Coming of Reagan in the 1980s. Tom Bradley and LA's Democratic alliances. Attack on the Rose Bird Supreme court. Local tax cuts, state tax cuts, Federal cuts.
Chickens come home to roost.
Unfunded mandates and fiscal shell-game. Permanent deficits of 1980s. Fiscal breakdown in recession of 1990s. Pete Wilson's desparate gambit. Prop 187 and blaming immigrants for fiscal crisis.