[CounterCounterCulture]

What we have now isn’t working either. That’s for damned sure.

And that's the bottom line here. Can't imagine this new panel being any worse or biased than the politicians drawing the lines themselves. This is our once in a decade opportunity to try something different.

And if it fails, seeing how easy Prop 27 got on the ballot shortly after passage of Prop 11, we have the next eight years to qualify an initiative with any necessary changes, and we'll have empirical data to prove our case.

So I am willing to give this panel a chance.

I know one of the criteria was that one could not have been on a party central committee for the past ten years, which disqualified me from considering applying, so this takes some of the hard-core political party activists out of the running (not all, but some is better than none).

[calcowgirl]

Good points, CCC.

We should all watch closely and pounce early if
this turns out bad.

[DoughtyOne]

I had come around to you’re way of thinking on this, and can confirm I’ll be voting for it.

I appreciate your comments on it. I agree with them.