This could be the worst threesome to run California in a very long time. Governor Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire emerged at the end of this year’s legislative session, which ended Saturday, as independent autocrats as opposed to a functioning team of Democrats. They disagreed. They proposed big reforms at the last minute. Too often they failed. And while they can’t make spectacles of themselves any more this session because it is thankfully over, there’s no reason to think that they can do any better conducting the people’s business any time soon. This session’s lowlights began with the implosion of an effort to address the state’s electricity crisis and the skyrocketing bills of the investor-owned utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric. There had been weeks of chatter that the Democrats would make some effort to lower electricity bills for consumers, but no actual legislation. The whole concept appeared dead.

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