I don’t think unicameral legislatures are ever a good thing.
In fact, I would prefer to see county-wide elected assemblies select the state senators for their area (just as the state legislatures were originally the electors of federal senators).
Just as the states, and their budgets, suffer under federal mandates, so to do county and local jurisdictions under state mandates - because those jurisdictions - the entities themselves - are not represented at the state level.
Wow what a horrible idea. Taken to new heights.
Yup reducing the number of electors that choose State Senators to a few assembly members (who'd you have to waste money electing) is a swell idea. Surely that would make things much better rather than MUCH WORSE. Having politicians choose politicians. Swell. Surely they'll chose a better caliber of candidate then the voters at large. What a thoroughly amusing notion.
By the way counties are just subdivisions of states. They (meaning their local governments) don't need to be directly represented in the leg. 100% of their citizens already are.
In the past some states had 1 Senator for each county or some such. That was abolished by the Supreme Court who ruled districts must be equal in population.