{"id":13285,"date":"2011-03-20T04:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T04:03:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-20T20:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:18:58","slug":"rose-institute-disqualified-ucberkeleys-karin-mcdonald-awarded-prop-14-consultant-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/20\/rose-institute-disqualified-ucberkeleys-karin-mcdonald-awarded-prop-14-consultant-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Institute Disqualified, UC-Berkeley&#8217;s Karin McDonald awarded Prop 11 Consultant Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/13273\/partisan-redistricting-commission\">possibility of a partisan redistricting commission<\/a> a couple of days ago. &nbsp;Long story short, the Rose Institute, a long-time conservative leaning &#8220;good government&#8221; organization had some serious connections to Republicans. &nbsp;Notably, the project lead had actually worked for a Republican Congressman. &nbsp;And when they were asked about their donors, they declined saying that there was no conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems that decision has come back to bite them, as they were disqualified by the commission. &nbsp;The commissioners then went on to unanimously appoint Karin McDonald of Berkeley&#8217;s Statewide Database and Research Center as the consultant responsible for drawing the maps. &nbsp;McDonald is a DTS voter who has never worked for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is still likely to be something of a stir about this, as Rose Institute still has five days to challenge their disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>note: title changed to show correct prop title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/13273\/partisan-redistricting-commission\">possibility of a partisan redistricting commission<\/a> a couple of days ago. &nbsp;Long story short, the Rose Institute, a long-time conservative leaning &#8220;good government&#8221; organization had some serious connections to Republicans. &nbsp;Notably, the project lead had actually worked for a Republican Congressman. &nbsp;And when they were asked about their donors, they declined saying that there was no conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems that decision has come back to bite them, as they were disqualified by the commission. &nbsp;The commissioners then went on to unanimously appoint Karin McDonald of Berkeley&#8217;s Statewide Database and Research Center as the consultant responsible for drawing the maps. &nbsp;McDonald is a DTS voter who has never worked for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is still likely to be something of a stir about this, as Rose Institute still has five days to challenge their disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>note: title changed to show correct prop title.<\/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":[9735,190],"class_list":["post-13285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9735","tag-190"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285","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=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}