Re: Texas redistricting & fairness

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

absolutely.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:18:36PM -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote:
> That was Phil Burton, wasn't it?
>
> Gene
>
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >In all fairness, John Burton did one of the first modern redistricting in
> >California.  What is new here is that the Repugs. want to do it whenever
> >they can rather than wait for the next census.
> >
> >
> >On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:32:30PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Friday, December 12, 2003 at 14:33:22 (-0500) Michael Hoover writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>>mpollak@xxxxxxxxx 12/12/03 10:14AM >>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>From today's Washington Post:
> >>>Judge Patrick Higginbotham, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
> >>>Circuit and one of three federal judges hearing the case, seemed
> >>>skeptical
> >>>of the Democrats' suggestion that redistricting had ever been a
> >>>scrupulously fair undertaking. ...
> >>>...
> >>>surprise, surprise, courts (or 2 major parties for that matter) have
> >>>adequately addressed integrity of competitive electoral process as
> >>>constitutional matter...so-called good-clean gov't/fair election types
> >>>correlate competitive and meaningful which, i suppose, has some
> >>>validity...of course, choices in competitive contest may/may not
> >>>themselves be meaningful...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'm surprised that on a progressive econ list such as this, the
> >>motives of the gerrymanderers (er?) to escape competition have not
> >>been compared to those who undertake corporate gerrymandering of
> >>markets to avoid dread "ruinous competition" and how thereby a large
> >>percentage of our so-called market economy is anything but.
> >>
> >>
> >>Bill
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >Michael Perelman
> >Economics Department
> >California State University
> >Chico, CA 95929
> >
> >Tel. 530-898-5321
> >E-Mail michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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