1. Fewer gerrymander districts = even more EVIL powerful oligarchs.

   REAL Democracy NOW via P.R.

   Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes needed for each seat winner.

2. Too much democracy? The cure is more democracy

   —- Al Smith, Dem 1928 Presidential candidate
   and Empire State Building pitch man ………

3. Another elitist… she won’t be able to buy this election. Perhaps she should move to Alaska and run there!

4. First, has anybody asked the resident sig collectors what they think of this, coupled with the pending legislation to ban paying for piecework on those petitions?

   Second, the problem isn’t the number of Assembly districts, or even how badly they’re gerrymandered (that should be revisited after the 2010 redistricting as applied by Prop 11). Instead, the problem is no county representation in Sacramento, and the fact that the legislators there are full-time, the term runs two years, and their number of bills are not limited to a low number, like 3 (which would still allow for 360 bills a term!).

5. Meg Whitman offering “solutions” for the problems in California’s democratic process would be laughable, if it weren’t so cynical.

   How can anyone who votes half the time, just recently registered her affiliation and is in bed with every old guard failed Republican in the world be good for California?

6. California = ungovernable ?????

   [Their veterans care program sure stinks!]

   ——— Donald Raymond Lake

7. What do you expect, coming from another “NEOCON”
   Phoney conservative! Endorsed by “JUAN McAMNESTY McCAIN”?? THAT is the ‘kiss of death’! Pro-Amnesty-“CFR” member (globalist) McCain has a clone….female billionaire Meg Whitman!
   WATCH OUT MEG !!!! The beautiful, savy CHELENE NIGHTINGALE announced her candidacy for California Governor, on the AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY (California’s CONSTITUTION PARTY) statewide ticket.
   Chelene has been very active in the illegal immigration, end the fed, and TEAPARTY rallies , RON PAUL revolution movement “activist”.She has been associated with SAVE OUR STATE for years. She can out debate Meg on the issues any day. Chelene announced she is in the race officially, as of JULY 4th, at the Cal/Mex border near Campo, at Camp Vigilance, 75 miles southeast of San Diego, among several hundred patriots, including former Congressman Tom Tancredo, Nacho Ramos and several fellow AIP Statewide candidates. ON TO VICTORY! CHELENE NIGHTINGALE FOR GOVERNOR!- Courtesy of
   Larry Breazeale, Msgt. (ret.) USAF,
   Nat. Chrm. National Veterans Coalition
   of the Constitution Party…www.nvets.org

8. Meg Whitman is an idiot.

   When interviewed by Glenn Beck she said she is against oil drilling. ALERT. Oil that comes out of the ground can be taxed providing income to a state in need of money.

9. A house with 80 members is “cumbersome”? New Hampshire must be in complete chaos with 400 members in its lower house. OTOH, if there were only a single lone legislator that would make the Assembly(of one?) a lot more efficient-but not very democratic.

   Th real problem with the CA legislature is that is nothing more than a tool of the teacher’s and state employees unions.

   Change the legislature to unicameral and enlarge it to 200 members elected by single-member district and 100 by open-list PR. Radically reduce the salary to the same level as Florida-another megastate.

10. And have the legislative districts drawn by computer for maximum compactness. You can’t have democracy when the legislators get to select who their constituents will be.

11. Well, California voters handled that problem very nicely in 2008, by passing the initiative to have a neutral commission draw the state legislative districts.

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