From: Ellen K. 

Californians are possibly unique in one respect, which is that although the
state is registered majority Democrat, and usually votes Democrat, people
do get their dander up when they sense they are being manipulated.  That's
how Proposition 13 passed and how Gray Davis got voted out of office.

A very big mistake the Republican party has made here is not courting the
Hispanic vote.  Hispanic culture is very much more oriented to "family
values" than to the Democrats' positions.  We had a terrific possible
candidate to run for the Senate, Rosario Marin -- female, Hispanic,
bootstrap life story, was mayor of a small city here, then US Treasurer,
but no, they had to run a gray white male.  Sheesh.

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:53:45 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message :

>It would have affected congressional representation as well, I assumed, but
>it didn't necessarily have to do so directly.  Eventually it would have
>either way.  It should have had the affect of getting more republicans over
>time, I would have thought.
>
>Gary
>
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:l02fn15ukmhfqn2fjlmmrk6guqoeouicmb{at}4ax.com...
>> Armey's letter said the current districting helped secure the Republican
>> majority in Congress.  I have to confess that I hadn't read the actual
>> text of the proposition before that and had assumed that it referred
>> only to the state legislature.
>>
>> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:47:36 -0500, "Gary Britt"
>>  wrote in message
:
>>
>> >Sweep the nation no.  Its actually not the way things should
be except in
>> >the case of California whose districting has gotten so out of whack that
>the
>> >proportion of democrats and republicans in the legislature doesn't even
>come
>> >close to reflecting the voting population.
>> >
>> >I was surprised to see Ellen's comment about Army, but he is a paid
>lobbyist
>> >now.  The state republicans for it probably have their seats pretty much
>> >guaranteed to them and like the democrats in the state legislature put
>their
>> >personal interest over the state's interest.
>> >
>> >Once California got its districting straightened out for a decade or so,
>> >they could go back to the usual and preferred method.  Right now
>> >California's legislature is a bigger captive to limited
special interests
>> >than is Washington, and that's really saying something
>> >
>> >Gary
>> >
>> >"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>> >news:2moen1hu3m2fe7lfs3qbsasr0urss42fmt{at}4ax.com...
>> >> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:58:45 -0500, "Gary Britt"
>> >>  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I was really disappointed in the defeat of Arnie's 4 ballot
>propositions.
>> >> >Especially the one that would have put one man one
vote back into the
>> >state
>> >> >legislature.  What did Arnie do in your opinion to
screw this all up?
>> >>
>> >> I was hoping that his redistricting proposition would pass in
>> >> California and then sweep the nation.
>> >
>> >
>>
>

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