Walters: Did state’s existential issues scare off potential candidates for governor?

California faces a half-dozen existential issues that threaten the state’s future economic and social wellbeing, and they have persistently defied attempts to resolve them over the last 25 years.

They are — in no particular order, and often intertwined — high living costs, high poverty levels, homelessness, a housing shortage, uncertain water supply and subpar public education outcomes. There are also a number of lesser issues, some being components of what I would consider the “Big 6,”...