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Originally posted by Spanky
The Governator just tried to pass a proposition in California whereby the drawing of the district lines would be taken away from the legislature and given to a panel of retired judges. A system that is used in a few states. Iowa has such a system and three of its five congressional seats were competitive last last election. California, out of 52 seats, did not have any that were competitive. In fact, of its forty state senate seats, eighty assembly seats, and fifty congressional seats, not one changed party hands in the last election.
The Unions spent twenty five million dollars to defeat the Governators proposition. That is reason 116 that I hate Unions.
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And in Texas it would be the guns lobby and business lobby that would kill it.
The competitiveness piece is interesting - anything that increases competitiveness should also increase responsiveness.
But, it's a good idea, and would at least put a brake on some of the partisanship. I am not, of course, under the impression that it would be a fully "non-partisan" approach or that it would eliminate partisanship.
