An op-ed by former Democratic Congressman Martin Frost on the FOX News website says: Every so often an important political issue flies “under the radar screen.” In other words, it’s not considered important enough for the national press to spend any time covering it. A perfect example is the next round of redistricting scheduled for… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Redistricting
Interview with the New Chairman Of the Rose Board
The following article is from our Fall, 2007 newsletter: Darryl Wold served as a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (1998-2002), including terms as chairman (2000) and vice chairman (1999). Mr. Wold has served as counsel to Reed & Davidson since 1988. He has been an assistant to the speaker of the California State Assembly,… Continue Reading
Maviglio v. Diaz on Redistricting
In his Sunday column John Diaz of the San Francisco Chronicle remarked that “against all odds, the Bay Area is looking at the possibility of two extremely competitive primaries against incumbents next June,” referring to former state Sen. Jackie Speier taking on Rep. Tom Lantos and Assemblyman Mark Leno (and possibly former Assemblymember Joe Nation)… Continue Reading
Weintraub on Term Limits, Redistricting, and Poizner
Dan Weintraub’s column in the Sacramento Bee lays out the case for redistricting reform and its logical relation to term limits reform: Bottom line: Term limits reform is a good idea, but without reform of the way district lines are drawn, it could make a bad system even worse. Continue Reading
Myers on the CommonCensus Project and Redistricting
Thanks to KQED’s John Myers of the Capitol Notes blog for the link; check out his comments on the post below: Whether this research turns out to be valid remains unknown… but just a quick glance at the California map suggests that like-minded people aren’t bound by traditional borders. And that’s one of the challenges… Continue Reading
The Boundaries You Feel: the CommonCensus Map Project
Found via the Marcus P. Zillman blog: The CommonCensus Map Project is redrawing the map of the United States based on your input, to reveal the boundaries people themselves feel, as opposed to the state and county boundaries drawn by politicians. View the maps to see how the country is divided into ‘spheres of influence’… Continue Reading
Walters on Prop. 93 & Redistricting
Dan Walters’ Sac Bee column today on Prop. 93, the now controversial term limits initiative, says in part: …once the term limit ballot measure was launched, they reneged on redistricting reform, without so much as an explanation. What that means, in effect, is that they are asking voters not only to give them longer careers… Continue Reading
Partisan Fun with Redistricting Analysis
The Daily Kos has a potentially interesting post for redistricting buffs entitled “Did GOP Gerrymander Itself Out of Power?” Continue Reading
Unruh’s Disputed Legacy
Nevermind the biased press Bill Cavala sees while observing coverage of the ill-fated Proposition 93. In another recent post about Sac Bee columnist Dan Walters’ aforementioned book review, Cavala claims that “‘Pop’ historians like Walters are really propagandists for the extremists who control today’s G.O.P.” As one might guess, redistricting history is a part of… Continue Reading
Don’t Think So, Bill…
Bill Cavala accuses the press of bias in its coverage of the term limits initative because of its love of redistricting reform: …the next step was the manipulation of the issue by the Governor. Because Legislative leaders supported the initiative, Schwarzenegger attempted to use that fact to extort action from them on redistricting. Because the… Continue Reading