I was contacted by Repair California with a request to use my name and provide a 50 word statement. Of course I complied. It was difficult to shrink my opinion to 50 words.
My slightly longer statement goes like this:
California, the Golden State, is literally falling apart. The streets, freeways, levees, and even the water distribution system are all breaking apart. Add to that the deteriorating educational system, the high taxes, the over budget government systems, and the legislative deadlocks and you begin to understand the depth of our turmoil.
The state districting has been so gerrymandered that there is little opportunity to unseat incumbent legislators without an extraordinary uprising of the electorate.
District boundaries are merely a symptom of the overall management of California. Republicans and Democrats have carved up the state in a manner that ensures that when an incumbent retires his successor will be in the same party.
Everyone in this state needs to become involved!
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