Thursday, November 18, 2010
CITIZEN'S PICK
If you read the news and blogs, you will read that the loss of some Democratic Governor seats all but assures a skewed redistricting toward the GOP.
But not in California. We voted that shit out a couple of years ago.
Citizens picked to draw political boundaries
This is a somewhat complicated process but one which insures clean deliberations. That is not to say that the parties won't try to get next to them somehow.
I am proud of my state.
We may not have any money and are headed into another debt ridden fiscal year but we have a new, clean way to get our districts right and that includes, incidentally, the State assembly.
Details are here: We Draw The Lines
Incidentally, the original beast, the Gerrymander, was invented in my last home state of Massachusetts. Actually a Commonwealth.
Labels: California, elections, politics