GOP Muckety-Mucks Run Around Like Chickens with their Heads Cut Off
The Saga of Proposition 50 Supposedly the CAGOP is now on offense. Can anyone recall any time in the last 50 years where it has been on offense? Brief History In 1980 (Proposition 6), voters approved a legislative constitutional amendment that removed the restriction on non-citizens from being included in the population for redistricting. It established new rules and moved the language from Article IV (Legislature) to a completely new one, Article XXI. In 2008 ( Proposition 11 ), a voter-initiative constitutional amendment removed (or so they believed) the Legislature's power to draw district maps for senate, assembly, and board of equalization seats. It set up a Citizens Redistricting Commission ("CRC") to draw the maps and added an entire chapter to the Government Code to establish the CRC. In 2010 ( Proposition 20 ), removed (or so they believed) the Legislature's power to draw congressional district maps as well. It also changed some of the redistri...