Sacramento keeps on fooling us

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me,” so the saying goes. Unfortunately, California voters have been fooled (aka lied to) so many times by our political leaders that perhaps they have come to expect it. For a politician to actually keep his or her word is now the exception, not the rule.
And it’s not just voters who get fooled. Interest groups and other officials are often snookered by those with more political power.  Several recent displays of this po