Redistricting – reform a must or a mess?
Redistricting – reform a must or a mess?
Every ten years, after the national census, California redraws its legislative districts with the ostensible purpose of more fairly representing voters. For the first time, a citizen commission will set those boundaries, taking the power out of legislators’ hands. But with a long list of regulations for membership to that body, it’s a challenge to make it representative of the state’s diverse population, and then there are the political forces who want to abolish the commission before it even puts pencil to paper. We ask…can the average citizen be heard with the new system?
Guests:
Elaine Howle, California State Auditor
George Skelton, Political Columnist for the Los Angeles Times
- Patt Morrison for February 9, 2010
- Fritz on the weather
- Can L.A. afford pet projects in times of budget crisis? City Council owns up its “slush funds”
- Redistricting – reform a must or a mess?
- The pain gap—pain management disparities by race, gender
- What came first: science or democracy?
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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