Dan Walters | Sacramento Bee - Capitol Alert | June 25, 2010
California voters will be pummeled this fall by both sides of a complex, high-stakes political battle over how the state's legislative, congressional and Board of Equalization seats are divvied up for the next decade.
Two years ago, voters approved Proposition 11, which shifted legislative and Board of Equalization redistricting from the Legislature to an independent commission, heeding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and political reformers. They said it was a conflict of interest for lawmakers to be drawing their own districts after the decennial census, pointing to a bipartisan gerrymander of districts after the 2000 census.