(Calif. GOP) Redistricting measure backers throw in the towel, won't seek passage

[Newsjock]

Source: Sacramento Bee

Leaders of a Republican-led drive that qualified a referendum for the November ballot to overturn California's newly drawn state Senate districts have decided not to seek its passage.

... Jason Kinney, spokesman for the Senate Democratic Caucus that opposed the referendum, said he was not surprised that GOP sponsors have decided not to bankroll a Proposition 40 campaign.

"This was a highly partisan, high-risk gambit by a handful of Republican Party establishment members -- and it's clearly backfired," Kinney said of the referendum.

The measure targeted new Senate district boundaries that many political analysts predicted would give Democrats at least two additional seats this year, assuring the party of the two-thirds majority needed to approve tax or fee increases in that house.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/redistricting-measure-proposition-40-backers-throw-in-the-towel-wont-seek-passage.html

[LynneSin]

1. HOnestly - we gave them Texas, we get to keep California

Redistricting, though, is a nightmare that is in need of some serious reform

[grantcart]

2. In California we did reform it, the new borders were established by a non partisan commission that

focused on natural boundaries and keeping communities intact.

That's why the Republicans are so upset.

[demosincebirth]

3. They're upset because it was fair, and "fair" is not in their playbook