It’s too bad that the initiative to change the apportionment of California electoral college votes in the Presidential election unfortunately has not been able to get off the ground. The leaders of the effort, including mega-consultant Marty Wilson and respected California political attorney Tom Hiltachk, deserve serious kudos for attempting to advance this forward thinking effort that would have made California of huge strategic importance in future presidential elections, and also assure representation of the diversity of California, by changing the method of apportionment of electoral votes from "winner-take-all" to one that would be largely by Congressional district results. The result would be a Republican candidate could be assured of receiving electoral college votes from our state.
The initiative was unable to garner the financial support it deserved, and, in addition, one of the donors had some apparent organizational difficulties. Regardless, it was a good try and an issue deserving of more consideration in future by donors, operatives, and voters alike.
September 29th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Lace,
Somebody needs to pick up this ball and run with it.
There have to be some donors who are not gutless or afraid of the Clintons.
September 29th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Jim, I love how the liberals are attacking Singer, the donor, as a “vulture capitalist” completing forgetting that their sugar daddy George Soros invented the vulture side of bankrupting entire nations.
Will the far left bloggers renounce Soros for his financial ethics?
This initiative should go forward if for no other reason that it has the Democrats reaching for their heart medicine. Besides it is really fair.