Standing in his way is a bow-tie-wearing physicist who loves classical Japanese poetry and is heir to a Berkshire Hathaway fortune. Charles Munger Jr., son of the late billionaire investor Charles Munger, has already poured $30 million into opposing the California governor’s efforts to revamp the state’s congressional districts in favor of Democrats. Munger is a Republican, but his crusade is far more about fighting gerrymandering than party preferences.
“His crusade is far more about fighting gerrymandering than party preferences.”
Complete blatant outright utter lie. If he gave a tiny shit about gerrymandering he would ahve fought Texas, more than just “criticize” them. Sanewash the Nazis some more whydontcha.
Exactly. Not a dime spent in Texas and the dude has plenty of money to spread around. The outlet is Yahoo so you can’t expect them to actually report anything not owner class approved.
I was thinking about this recently, but it’s actually shocking that our country isn’t already far more gerrymandered than it is. Because there are very few laws against gerrymandering, and so, since the average politician has no conscience, there’s really nothing stopping them from gerrymandering as much as possible.
That’s the current rules we’re playing with.
To use a sports analogy, it’s like in basketball, everybody knows that fouling the winning team at the last minute can be a way to catch up, especially if the person being fouled is bad at free throws. So that’s why the losing team always starts fouling at the end of a close game, even though it seems like a sort of a cheap tactic.
But in the case of gerrymandering, it’s like everybody knows fouling is the way to win, and almost nobody is actually doing it. It’s hard to imagine.
And to continue the basketball analogy, if you wanted them to stop fouling at the end of the game, you could fix it by changing the rules for the next season. You can’t just rely on the goodwill of the teams to stop doing it. Similarly, we can fix gerrymandering through either federal laws or constitutional amendments.
I think you’re quite underestimating the extent of gerrymandering. The reason they haven’t gone all out prior is out of 2 core reasons;fear voters would vote against them if they do and fear the other party would retaliate with similar measures. Option one is obviously been found to not be an issue, and now that they think they can seize permanent power with it, option 2 is also starting to be ignored by Republicans --but the dems are following through with the ever present implicit threat