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Article: WORKING COMPROMISE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER HERB WESSON STEPS UP TO THE PLATE.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 16, 2003
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Byline: Jill Stewart
WHEN both sides in Sacramento are grumbling after a key vote, you know for certain that the rare bird known as compromise has flown and perched on the Capitol dome. That's heartening to see after a year of partisan gridlock that got California exactly nowhere.
The 120 legislators got a 17 percent approval rating from voters at their lowest point this year. But they have not been much motivated to change because they are elected from so-called ``safe'' districts drawn up by their own parties to ensure that they are almost certainly re-elected.
Two remarkable things happened last week. First, Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson took ...