{"id":570,"date":"2004-10-19T01:59:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T01:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","slug":"ahnold_is_my_governator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Ah-nold Is My Governator"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on a series on the California initiatives, but wanted to point out some great news<\/a> that I just saw on Dan Weintraub’s site (you ought to read it all the time if you live in CA):<\/p>\n

Schwarzenegger just endorsed Prop. 62, the open primary initiative. But he also took a much more important step for the long run. He offered a full-throated endorsement for reforming the way legislators draw district lines, and taking that power out of the hands of elected officials. He says he will be challenging the Legislature to put a reform initiative on the ballot. He doesn’t say when, but I hope he means next year, in a special election. It’s silly to let legislators pick their voters, when it should be the other way around. If Schwarzenegger can change that, he will truly deserve the reformist governor credentials he seeks.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that hyperpartisanship and entrenched incumbency caused in large part by gerrymandering is one of the worst features of our political system – even worse than the way the money gets raised (remember ‘Big Daddy’ Unruh’s quote? “If you can’t eat their food, drink their liquor, [have Biblical knowledge of] their [women of ill-repute] and take their money and STILL vote AGAINST them, you
\ndon’t belong in this business<\/i>“).<\/p>\n

I’ve railed<\/a> against<\/a> gerrymandering<\/a> in the past, and will do so as often and loudly as I can.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> moderated language so WoC doesn’t get killed in kiddie filters… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m working on a series on the California initiatives, but wanted to point out some great news that I just saw on Dan Weintraub’s site (you ought to read it all the time if you live in CA): Schwarzenegger just endorsed Prop. 62, the open primary initiative. But he also took a much more important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}