Democracy can be messy, said a perhaps unsympathetic Mark Petracca, political science professor at UC Irvine. … “ ‘The sky is falling' criticism of what the citizens are doing here is indicative of a district which is unaccustomed to public scrutiny and public oversight for its actions. Sometimes – and honestly, it probably happens too rarely – the public says enough is enough, and this is what you get.”


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