Bad Memories

In your March 7 editorial lamenting the voters’ renewed support of term limits, you speak of the resulting “revolving doors” in the Legislature’s speakership and committee chairmanships as if there’s something wrong with that. Perhaps at The Times you have no “institutional memory” of the damage done to the state of California by the career politicians who held those positions for years and operated them as personal fiefdoms to the everlasting detriment of the public.

Despite a record-low turnout in last Tuesday’s election, Californians embraced environmental protection along with a renewed attempt to protect ourselves from those who long ago forgot what we sent them to Sacramento to do. We have only to look at our state’s shameful record in public education, among other issues, to see the “advantages” of the institutional memory that you seem to advocate.

C.Z. Wick

Los Angeles