Prop 11 (Redistricting) -- Vote NO
This initiative isn't getting the visibility of the "big important issue" of whether we should embed bigotry in our State Constitution ... but it's very important.
It's essentially good ol' Arnie's attempt to do an end run past the obstacles his cronies hit when -- GAH! -- elected officials decide districting issues (a process which has plenty of problems, but at least the decision makers have to answer to their constituents come election day) and install a convoluted APPOINTMENT PROCESS engineered to be easily tainted by the GOP and Big Oil.
Non-white and lower income communities will, no surprise, be the big losers in this one.
An exerpt from the ballotpedia.com non-partisan analysis of Prop 11:
" Opponents to Prop. 11 include:
* U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer,
* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
* the California Democratic Party,
* the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund,
* the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
* the Asian-American Pacific Legal Center."
Arguments that have been claimed in opposition to Prop. 11 include:
* No accountability to taxpayers. Each commission member is guaranteed $300 a day, plus unlimited expenses in the form of staffing, offices, etc.
* The commission created under Prop. 11 would allow politicians to hide behind the selected bureaucrats to maintain a hold on redistricting as they wish.
* The overly complicated process created by Prop. 11 would make it easier to mask hidden agendas of the people behind those on the committee.[26] "
It's essentially good ol' Arnie's attempt to do an end run past the obstacles his cronies hit when -- GAH! -- elected officials decide districting issues (a process which has plenty of problems, but at least the decision makers have to answer to their constituents come election day) and install a convoluted APPOINTMENT PROCESS engineered to be easily tainted by the GOP and Big Oil.
Non-white and lower income communities will, no surprise, be the big losers in this one.
An exerpt from the ballotpedia.com non-partisan analysis of Prop 11:
" Opponents to Prop. 11 include:
* U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer,
* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
* the California Democratic Party,
* the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund,
* the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
* the Asian-American Pacific Legal Center."
Arguments that have been claimed in opposition to Prop. 11 include:
* No accountability to taxpayers. Each commission member is guaranteed $300 a day, plus unlimited expenses in the form of staffing, offices, etc.
* The commission created under Prop. 11 would allow politicians to hide behind the selected bureaucrats to maintain a hold on redistricting as they wish.
* The overly complicated process created by Prop. 11 would make it easier to mask hidden agendas of the people behind those on the committee.[26] "