From: Ellen K. 

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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