In 2008, California voters adopted Proposition 11, a measure that stripped the state legislature of its power to draw its own districts and transferred that power to an independent redistricting commission. Proposition 11 left in place the legislature’s power to draw the state’s congressional districts, but established new redistricting criteria for the legislature to follow [...]
The Rose Institute’s “Gerrymandering Hall of Shame” simply provides maps of California Assembly, Senate, and Congressional districts in 1991 and 2001. By looking at these maps, one can easily see how these districts changed because of the bipartisan gerrymandering of the state legislature in 2001. A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento, [...]
As Jack Blecher reports at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CSULB, Dr. Leroy Hardy is still teaching students after all these years.
Dr. Hardy was a longtime senior associate of the Institute, and over the years he has made generous gifts of endowment, books, and redistricting archive materials. Some of Dr. Hardy’s work with [...]
Over at the California Progress Report, Bill Bagley maintains that Democrat Phil Burton saved the California Republican party in the 1960s. At the end of the article, the editors note that longtime friend of the Rose Institute, Tony Quinn, “had some problems with this piece”:
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