{"id":10509,"date":"2009-11-17T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-17T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:37:08","slug":"wwwsomemythicalnonpoliticalcreaturethatwill-devoteayeartoapportionmentdrawsthelinescagov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/wwwsomemythicalnonpoliticalcreaturethatwill-devoteayeartoapportionmentdrawsthelinescagov\/","title":{"rendered":"www.SomeMythicalNonPoliticalCreatureThatWill DevoteAYearToApportionmentDrawsTheLines.ca.gov"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Over the weekend at the CDP E-Board meeting, the PR folks hired by the State Auditor to gin up interest did a presentation about the application process for the Redistricting Commission.  The presentation made me think a few things.<\/p>\n

1)<\/b> Sucks to be an activist. If you serve or have recently served on your local or state central committees for any party, you are ineligible. If you’ve run for a partisan nomination, you are ineligible. If you have worked for a politician, you are ineligible. If your spouse, child or parent has run for election or worked for a politician, you are ineligible.  Which leads me to my next point.<\/p>\n

2) <\/b>We need to encourage people who aren’t regular participants in the partisan process, but do share progressive values and will fight for progressive legislators to apply. You can get more information about the application process here<\/a>. They even give you a full timeline of the system, because it’s actually kind of crazy. It is a fairly big committment. The process will likely last around a year from start to finish. Commissioners will be paid only a per diem and a travel allowance, so nobody’s getting rich off of this. However, it is a pretty powerful little body, if they are actually to get some lines drawn.<\/p>\n

3) <\/b>We should particularly encourage progressive DTS, Greens and members of other progressive parties that are eligible to apply.  The seats are broken down as 5 for Dems and Reps, and 4 “others”. Ideally, as many as possible of those “others” will be left-leaning others that would be interested in a progressive legislature.
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4)<\/b> I was reminded what a piece of crap Prop 11 was. It specifically enumerates the two main parties as Democrats and Republicans. If a major third party develops, well, I guess we’ll have to redo this POS.<\/p>\n

5)<\/b> In the end, we are likely to end up with lines drawn by the judges because that this panel will work are kind of slim. It requires a lot of agreement amongst the commissioners and disqualifies everybody who understands this stuff. The map then will then deal with the specter of a test at the ballot.<\/p>\n

6) <\/b>Seeing just how messy this 14-member panel will be makes me shudder to think about the con-con selection process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Over the weekend at the CDP E-Board meeting, the PR folks hired by the State Auditor to gin up interest did a presentation about the application process for the Redistricting Commission.  The presentation made me think a few things.<\/p>\n

1)<\/b> Sucks to be an activist. If you serve or have recently served on your local or state central committees for any party, you are ineligible. If you’ve run for a partisan nomination, you are ineligible. If you have worked for a politician, you are ineligible. If your spouse, child or parent has run for election or worked for a politician, you are ineligible.  Which leads me to my next point.<\/p>\n

2) <\/b>We need to encourage people who aren’t regular participants in the partisan process, but do share progressive values and will fight for progressive legislators to apply. You can get more information about the application process here<\/a>. They even give you a full timeline of the system, because it’s actually kind of crazy. It is a fairly big committment. The process will likely last around a year from start to finish. Commissioners will be paid only a per diem and a travel allowance, so nobody’s getting rich off of this. However, it is a pretty powerful little body, if they are actually to get some lines drawn.<\/p>\n

3) <\/b>We should particularly encourage progressive DTS, Greens and members of other progressive parties that are eligible to apply.  The seats are broken down as 5 for Dems and Reps, and 4 “others”. Ideally, as many as possible of those “others” will be left-leaning others that would be interested in a progressive legislature.
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4)<\/b> I was reminded what a piece of crap Prop 11 was. It specifically enumerates the two main parties as Democrats and Republicans. If a major third party develops, well, I guess we’ll have to redo this POS.<\/p>\n

5)<\/b> In the end, we are likely to end up with lines drawn by the judges because that this panel will work are kind of slim. It requires a lot of agreement amongst the commissioners and disqualifies everybody who understands this stuff. The map then will then deal with the specter of a test at the ballot.<\/p>\n

6) <\/b>Seeing just how messy this 14-member panel will be makes me shudder to think about the con-con selection process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-10509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-190"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}