[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

The fact that incumbents from both parties in California are recoiling from Prop 77 like a Jewish vampire from a Star of David tells me that I probably should vote Yes on it.

The DemocRATs hate it because it MIGHT give Republicans a shot at winning and incumbent Republicans hate it because it MIGHT make their safe districts less so.

Michael Frazier

[maica]

If I was Queen for a Day I would mandate that all Congressional districts be defined by dropping a mesh grid from the sky and then pulling the cords of the mesh until the equal number of constituents was inside each "square". No letter shaped or strings of beads shaped districts at all.

Every district a truly competitive one. Then our reps would really have to pretend a bit more that they were interested in "the will of the people."