There are many things wrong in this world. We hear about them everyday. But recently this past Thursday, the 21st, the worst assault occurred to the rights of we the California voter.
As a representational democracy, this latest of voter atrocities is the single biggest blow to free elections, since civil rights legislation.
Proposition 77,
The Redistricting Reform/Anti-Gerrymandering Initiative, was the single most important initiative on the ballot to reduce voter and governmental fraud, waste, and abuse by California state government.
This is the Redistricting Reform measure supported by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and intended to be on the November 8th special election ballot.
Yet again an activist judge in collusion with Attorney General Bill Lockyer has managed to unilaterally protect legislators at the State and Federal levels from being outed by their rightful constituency.
He and Sacramento Judge Gail D. Ohanesian's have managed to do the unthinkable, and obstruct and deny us from our constitutional elective rights.
The reason cited by Lockyer was a violation of the California Constitution by using two different versions of the
Initiative 77 in the qualifying process. That is, two different versions of the initiative appeared on different signature petition forms used to gather signatures of registered voters.
These differences although
only stylistic and
not substantive, were enough of an excuse to wrongly disenfranchise we voters. A compromise so cowardice and self serving, it can not be believed.
This arbitrary Judicial Revocation is perhaps the single worst action taken against
“We the People” in the history of our great Nation.
The measure deserved an up-or-down decision by we the voters. The drawing of new district lines after the 2000 census was so politically biased — with Republicans and Democrats in collusion — that not a single seat in the Assembly, the state Senate or in California's 53 congressional districts changed parties in the 2004 election.
The situation is so intolerable that this measure gathered considerable support from a public that usually yawns at such inside political matters.
We here in the 23rd Congressional District, know only too well the voter imprisonment we suffer in the world’s now best known and most infamous gerrymandered
“Ribbon Of Shame District.”This cannot stand if we are to survive as a Democracy.
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Edited summary of a posting on: FraudFactor.com, 07/21/2005 5:53:08 PM PDT
Judge Removes Redistricting Reform Initiative from California Ballot
This is a major blow to California voters and tax payers who need relief from the massive political corruption and waste of tax dollars resulting from safe, non-competitive gerrymandered election districts that result when the incumbent politicians redraw their election district boundary lines.
The outcomes of the general election for most of California's 80 State Assembly seats, 20 of the 40 State Senate seats, and 53 Congressional seats are determined by the Primary Election, before the General Election, due to gerrymandered election district boundary lines. Also, the Democrat majority party ensures itself an artificially large super-majority due to gerrymandering.
Thus, California has suffered election theft every two years for many decades, and all voters of all parties suffer from nonresponsive entrenched politicians who instead cater to lobbyists and other special interests.
Safe gerrymandered election districts have allowed the Democrat super-majority in the California Legislature to maintain its majority grip on California. While safeguarding the minority Republican legislators, as well.
The money and time spent to qualify the initiative is lost.
For more information, click on these links:
Proposition 77,
gerrymandering, the
text of initiative 77 as a web page and as a
downloadable pdf file.
