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Before the 2010 elections, the records reveal that Hofeller also strategized with Republicans about backing a successful California ballot initiative entrusting an independent commission — instead of the Democratic-led Legislature — with the task of congressional redistricting. A draft of one memo said it could help “avoid a GOP disaster” in the 2011 redistricting. More recently, Democrats have been backing successful ballot initiatives for independent commissions or nonpartisan redistricting efforts against the resistance of Republican-led legislatures in states such as Michigan and Missouri. … [Read more...] about Records reveal concerns of deceased GOP redistricting expert

The role of the 41 PCCs is up for review, and I can see why. They failed to catch the public’s imagination. Turnout at their first elections in 2012 was just 15.1 per cent, and in 2016 was still only 26.6 per cent. They never recovered from a Channel 4 documentary in 2014 called “Meet the Police Commissioner”, in which the then PCC for Kent, Ann Barnes, revealed herself as a real-life David Brent, talking in wince-making management-speak and repeatedly getting her job title wrong. … [Read more...] about I’ve learned the hard way that bad police reform just breeds more pen pushers

Voters from a village in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, have decided to either boycott polling on April 11 or press the ‘NOTA’ option because they say none of the promises made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the BJP in 2014 have been fulfilled. Dabhdi Village, in Arni Tehsil, Yavatmal District, came into prominence when then-PM candidate Modi held a Chai Pe Charcha here ahead of the 2014 election, promising to solve farmers’ problems and usher in achche din. Dabhdi is a nondescript village, with a population of around 3,500, where cotton, soybean and red gram are grown. Following a spate of farmer suicides in the run-up to the 2014 election, the BJP campaign team zeroed in on it, in an effort to highlight the failure of the UPA government. The high-profile campaign worked, and the constituency the village is in sent the BJP candidate to Parliament. But five years on, there is complete disenchantment not only with the government, but also with the opposition, and … [Read more...] about Chai-pe-charcha village says word not kept, will use NOTA to protest

“Inadequate action and false solutions will result in extreme consequences for the planet that will have notably disproportionate impact on the peoples of the Global South, as well as working class communities, communities of color, and indigenous and marginalized peoples living on the front-lines of the escalating climate crisis,” claims its website. … [Read more...] about Environmentalists Already Furious With COP21 Paris Agreement

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's legal team filed its first response to impeachment summons from the Senate, calling the two articles passed by the House of Representatives a "brazen and unlawful" attempt to overturn the will of the American people. "This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election-now just months away," Trump's lawyers said on Saturday in a six-page fiery response filed with the Senate. "The highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the President began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day," they said and urged the Senate to reject the two articles of impeachment. The House of Representatives, controlled by the Democratic Party, on Wednesday voted to send articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, in a major development to remove him from office for his alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In a 228-193 vote, which was mainly … [Read more...] about Articles of impeachment ‘brazen and unlawful’ attempt to overturn will of Americans: Trump’s lawyers