To the editor: Mark Z. Barabak tried what some may contemplate a comparatively balanced column on the web results of final yr’s redistricting efforts (“With midterm vote beginning, right here’s the place issues stand in nationwide redistricting combat,” March 1). However let’s look a bit nearer.
Utah Republicans “ignored a voter-approved poll measure meant to stop 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 make the most of 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 place to begin for no matter changes occur?
Shell recreation, anybody?
Todd Maddison, Oceanside
