The California Citizen’s Redistricting Commission has released their first draft of proposed California congressional districts and Orange County extremist Dana Rohrabacher may be kept where he belongs: Orange County.
The last round of redistricting saw the creation of the 46th district though the connection of conservative Huntington Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes by way of dirty, liberal Long Beach. Unfortunately, there were apparently too many dangerous minorities who wouldn’t buy into Mr. Rohrabacher’s hyper-individualist-fuck-you-I-got-mine-jack philosophy that the only part of the city that was added to the district was East Long Beach (which might was well have been Orange County anyways) and a narrow strip of everything south of First St and the Port of Long Beach. There’s only one street south of First St and there’s more feral cats than people in the Port.
The district was designed to protect Mr. Rohrabacher’s congressional seat so he could conduct the people’s business like suggesting that Iraq pay for the services we’ve rendered (like creating piles of rubble, or blowing up those piles of rubble) or implying that decaying wood and leaves is a more dangerous source of global warming than your car (just kidding, global warming isn’t real!)
And it’s not like Long Beach’s other congressional representative, Democrat Laura Richardson, is any better. She was named one of the most corrupt members of congress in 2009 and 2010 by liberal open-government advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
This is what the process turned into, an incumbent protection plan. An entire group of elected officials who were writing the rules for their own election. They write all the other rules for their own election why not let them draw their own districts?
These problems affect California at the state level as well. The state Democrats can’t even convince one of the Republicans to vote for the budget so they can overcome the ridiculous budget requirements that our current governor put into place in the 70’s. Thanks Jerry!
We shouldn’t expect the Republicans to want to actually do something because they come from districts who’s constituents believe they could live better without the government interfering in their lives. And the Democratic districts never saw a program they didn’t like.
The system lives on chaos, constantly on the brink of collapse, so that we don’t have the time to interpret information and make an informed decision. If we wait the economy will collapse! The state government will shut down! Grandma won’t get her medicare or social security check! The terrorists will attack! And don’t forget about whatever China’s doing, I’m sure it’s scary.
I don’t have much hope for this round of redistricting but it can’t be any worse than the current system. And anything that gets Dana Rohrabacher out of Long Beach and stuck into Orange County is a good thing in my book. Hopefully, he’ll lose the election and stay there.
