Thanks .. didn’t know about that engineering.
Yup, Rove was a disaster for California.
Since you are interested, I am going to provide you with the best history on the topic by John Kurzweil, editor of the California Political Review. The original and all its spinoffs are long gone, and I think deliberately. It is damning.
The Parsky Plan - Part 1
The Parsky Plan - Part 2
The Parsky Plan - Part 3
The Parsky Plan - Part 4
Thank G_d for the Web Archive.