While I consider myself a Republican and I think I have voted that way pretty much consistently, I have always loved how Jim Matheson trashed the Utah Legislature in their efforts to gerrymander him out of office.
California, of which I am a native, has finally solved their budget crisis. The root cause of the issue in California was all of the gerrymandering by the Democrat majority in the Legislature over the years. However, the CA constitution gives the minority party enormous clout with respect to raising taxes or approving budgets. The shortsighted Democrats hampered themselves by ensuring the rightest of right wing nuts would represent the Republican party, by making the districts the Republicans would win enormously conservative, and there would be enough of them, I think by the number of 1, that if the Right Wingers stand firmly together they could neutralize the Democrats in these areas. Think the Democrats can figure out a way to emiminate that 1 and ensure themselves a spectacular super majority for time and all eternity?
Great stuff we do in this country.
California, of which I am a native, has finally solved their budget crisis. The root cause of the issue in California was all of the gerrymandering by the Democrat majority in the Legislature over the years. However, the CA constitution gives the minority party enormous clout with respect to raising taxes or approving budgets. The shortsighted Democrats hampered themselves by ensuring the rightest of right wing nuts would represent the Republican party, by making the districts the Republicans would win enormously conservative, and there would be enough of them, I think by the number of 1, that if the Right Wingers stand firmly together they could neutralize the Democrats in these areas. Think the Democrats can figure out a way to emiminate that 1 and ensure themselves a spectacular super majority for time and all eternity?
Great stuff we do in this country.
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