LA Times Calls for Proposition 71 Overhaul
Posted by Jesse Reynolds December 12, 2007
Biopolitical Times
Today, the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times called for the California Legislature to modify Proposition 71, which created the state's stem cell research agency:
[T]he Legislature could help by reconfiguring the governing board, making it smaller and balancing it with a strong contingent of elected officials and consumer watchdogs. Any change will take a 70% vote, usually a political impossibility. But the problems are nagging enough, and the stakes high enough, that the Legislature must overcome party divisions to create a leaner, more accountable institution.
These are powerful words. Not only is the Times the state's most widely-circulated paper, but its editorial board strongly endorsed the 2004 initiative.