James L. of the Swing State Project follows up on his post describing the fastest and slowest growing House districts by commenting on and pointing us to Polidata’s projections of “the states that stand to gain and lose House seats after the 2010 Census.” Check out the comments. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Rose Report
Boyarsky on Unruh
An excerpt in the L.A. Times from Bill Boyarsky‘s Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics touches on redistricting: Unruh reached into the streets of South Central Los Angeles and, for the first time, brought substantial numbers of African Americans into power in the California legislature and Democratic Party. “Jesse genuinely believed… Continue Reading
Weekend Reading Assignment
What with all the news of the $10 billion plus state budget shortfall these days, we highly suggest you simply go over to the Legislative Analysts Office website (which is always chock full of goodies for citizens and experts alike) to see what all the fuss is about. Just watch Legislative Analyst-in-Chief Elizabeth Hill’s webcast… Continue Reading
FEC Nominees and Redistricting Politics
Via Election Law. In this Weekly Standard article, Edward Blum of the American Enterprise Institute criticizes Barak Obama’s criticism of Bush FEC nominee Hans von Spakovsky. Redistricting is in the mix: Continue Reading
Common Cause on the Voter’s FIRST Act
Josh Zaharoff of Common Cause, in a round-up of the organization’s actions for election reform throughout the states, sums up their recent actions for redistricting reform in California: Continue Reading
Rick Hasen's Election Law blog
Thanks to Rick Hasen’s invaluable Election Law blog for the link. Continue Reading
Ohio: Census 2010 & Reapportionment
As Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire points out, a recent CQ Politics article says: The relatively anemic rate of population growth in Ohio promises to rob the state of at least one representative in the reapportionment of House seats after the 2010 census, further threatening the state’s clout in Congress. See also our previous post, Illegal… Continue Reading
Redistricting Controversy in Wisconsin
The Journal Times of Racine, Wisconsin, in an op-ed advocating for redistricting reform, says: In 2005 both California and Ohio voters faced ballot measures to replace legislative redistricting with less political panels. Both states defeated their respective measures. In California, Democratic districts were heavily against the idea as were public employee unions, yet supporters included… Continue Reading
Update from the Managers
The following article is from our Fall, 2007 newsletter: Student research assistants have returned to the Rose again this year after another exciting summer of internships and experiences. Six Rose students spent the summer in Washington, D.C. working at internships ranging from the Center for American Progress to the State Department. Continue Reading
OC Register Blog
Thanks to Steven Greenhut at the Orange Punch blog for the link. Continue Reading