Hi folks. Taking your attention back to redistricting for a bit. In the past couple of weeks, leadership in the California legislature has finally acknowledged that it is time to do something about about how political districts are drawn in the state. Speaker of the House Fabian Nunez (D - Los Angeles) said last week that it is time to put the power to draw the lines in the hands of an independent commission. Word is that the legislature will hold hearings, possibly as early as next week, to discuss the adoption of alternatives that will put an end to the rigged election system. We welcome the Speaker's willingness to address what is clearly a broken system that allows the two major parties to collude to protect their own seats, at the expense of the voters.
Daniel Weintraub made the case for why this needs to happen, and why both parties need to support redistricting reform now very effectively in his column in the Sacramento Bee (free registration req'd):
Imagine a campaign in which Schwarzenegger lays out that case with a few simple ideas: The current system is rigged by the politicians. Legislators choose their voters rather than voters choosing their legislators. The party bosses hate my proposal. Common Cause is for it.
We'll keep you up to date on what happens next.
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