Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands
Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands
By Warner Todd Huston Monday, October 18, 2010
Bloomberg News is reporting that Charles Munger, Jr., son of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Charles Munger, has thrown his fortune behind an effort to defeat a campaign funded by unions and the anti-American billionaire George Soros to put redistricting powers back into the hands of politicians bought and paid for by union money.
Munger and his wife have spent some $10.5 million on a plan to continue the creation of a commission composed of five Democrats, five Republicans, and four non-partisan members who are to have the power to affect the redistricting required by Congress as a result of Census statistics.
“I’m doing this to try to ensure voters have fair districts where representatives will compete for offices,” Munger said yesterday in a telephone interview from Palo Alto. “Elected politicians are picking the voters, voters aren’t picking their representatives.”
For their part, Democrats, unions and George Soros are sponsoring Proposition 27, a plan to abolish the independent commission and return the redistricting duties to politicians.
Now, at some level I am torn over the whole episode. In ideal situations I’d hate to have some unelected, unaccountable commission determining how my district is arranged and I’d rather want my elected official to be the one to determine the way it should go. After all, as a voter I have the power to affect my local representative but I’d have no way at all to affect this commission.
However, because unions and anti-American outsiders like Soros have bought and paid for 90% of California’s political class, I can see why people don’t trust their elected officials to do something as important as redistricting.
More Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands
Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands
By Warner Todd Huston Monday, October 18, 2010
Bloomberg News is reporting that Charles Munger, Jr., son of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Charles Munger, has thrown his fortune behind an effort to defeat a campaign funded by unions and the anti-American billionaire George Soros to put redistricting powers back into the hands of politicians bought and paid for by union money.
Munger and his wife have spent some $10.5 million on a plan to continue the creation of a commission composed of five Democrats, five Republicans, and four non-partisan members who are to have the power to affect the redistricting required by Congress as a result of Census statistics.
“I’m doing this to try to ensure voters have fair districts where representatives will compete for offices,” Munger said yesterday in a telephone interview from Palo Alto. “Elected politicians are picking the voters, voters aren’t picking their representatives.”
For their part, Democrats, unions and George Soros are sponsoring Proposition 27, a plan to abolish the independent commission and return the redistricting duties to politicians.
Now, at some level I am torn over the whole episode. In ideal situations I’d hate to have some unelected, unaccountable commission determining how my district is arranged and I’d rather want my elected official to be the one to determine the way it should go. After all, as a voter I have the power to affect my local representative but I’d have no way at all to affect this commission.
However, because unions and anti-American outsiders like Soros have bought and paid for 90% of California’s political class, I can see why people don’t trust their elected officials to do something as important as redistricting.
More Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands