To the editor: Mark Z. Barabak tried what some may think about a comparatively balanced column on the web results of final 12 months’s redistricting efforts (“With midterm vote starting, here’s where things stand in national redistricting fight,” March 1). However let’s look a bit of nearer.
Utah Republicans “ignored a voter-approved poll measure meant to forestall such heavy-handed partisanship.” However not California Democrats once they ignored a voter-approved poll measure implementing impartial redistricting commissions?
Sure, politicians did prolong “an enormous center finger” to voters, however why solely (precisely) label President Trump’s actions as such when Gov. Gavin Newsom did the identical factor? Proposition 50 was a transparent try by Democrats to benefit from a perceived “disaster” to cement their largely one-party rule within the state.
Does anybody actually suppose all the brand new Democrats elected this fall will hand over their seats in 2030, when Proposition 50 expires? Or that, even when the impartial commissions are reinstated, they aren’t going to make use of the brand new districts as the start line for no matter changes occur?
Shell sport, anybody?
Todd Maddison, Oceanside
