Rodino has been out a long, long time, and the buses still roll. So Republicans backed down. So Republicans backed down on the English only initiatives. All three of these initiatives passed overwhelmingly by popular vote in California. So Republicans just lost the governorship in California.
Democrats control both Houses of the legislature in California.
When reapportionment takes place in California, where about an eighth of the entire US House will be elected in the next decade, Democrats will control it. Before we condemn conservative respectables as lacking raw guts, let's look at what they had the courage to propose. Perot's big demand was a balanced budget. Republicans got a lot of votes demanding a balanced budget, so Clinton went along with it. Conservative respectability is, by definition, unable to do anything that the left cannot scare them away from or adopt itself.