Self-esteem guru and scheming California politician John Vasconcellos' attempt to lower the voting age is crawling forward:

A state senator's proposal to lower California's voting age to 14 passed its first legislative test Wednesday on a party-line vote of the Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee.

With Democrats in support and Republicans in opposition, the controversial bill by Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose, cleared the committee on a 3-2 vote.

By the same vote, the committee also approved a companion measure -- a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would be needed to lower the minimum voting age from 18 to 14. The constitutional amendment would require voter approval...

It'd be so nice if the Bay Area would just secede from the rest of California.

As I've said before, this is much more than just wacky legislation from a wacky legislator, and I'd suggest taking him - or at least those like him - seriously. Previous coverage starts here.