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"The move comes on the same day the California Recovery Team announced that Steve Poizner, a Silicon Valley billionaire and Republican candidate for Insurance Commissioner next year, will head up the Schwarzenegger-backed committee also pushing Proposition 77.

The proposition, one of three "year of reform" initiatives that Schwarzenegger helped put on the ballot for a special election Nov. 8, would strip lawmakers of their power to draw Congressional and state legislative boundaries, handing the job to a panel of retired judges."

This is huge. Not just for CA. For the US. Partisan redistricting is strangling democracy in the US. A national movement of this sort is needed (and I suppose, exists, but I am unaware of it. Please inform me. Thanks.)

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A lot of discussion of prop. 77 on this thread over here.

[Carry_Okie]

But Pat Caddell, a longtime Democratic consultant who serves on the board of Californians for Fair Redistricting, was more blunt, saying Schwarzenegger's largely Republican group of advisers had hijacked the measure and undercut its goals.

That has a familiar ring to it, if I recall correctly.