{"id":343132,"date":"2025-10-30T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343132\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:43:13","slug":"case-against-proposition-50-built-on-weak-arguments-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343132\/","title":{"rendered":"Case against Proposition 50 built on weak arguments \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re \u201cNo on 50: It\u2019s not the high road\u201d (Oct. 17<\/a>): Your editorial is misleading. The Los Angeles Times\u2019 George Skelton (\u201cForget the high-road jibber-jabber. Prop. 50 is about who controls Congress,\u201d Oct. 6<\/a>) actually endorsed Proposition 50, which you failed to mention. Your presidential election breakdown argument for redistricting considerations runs counter to the primary standards adopted by the California Redistricting Commission \u2014 mainly, that districts must comply with the Constitution, be of equal population, comply with the Voting Rights Act and be contiguous. Finally, voting no to prevent a possibility of this being made permanent is a weak argument because it ignores that if such an attempt is made, another vote of the people would be required.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tom Gingell, Del Cerro<\/p>\n

To those people who plan to vote no on Proposition 50 because you are against gerrymandering:\u00a0 Are you also against gerrymandering in Texas, Florida, Missouri and North Carolina?\u00a0 I am voting yes on 50 for three reasons: 1) something has to be done to counter the extreme gerrymandering in other states, 2) in this state it is the decision of the people, not some government politicians, and 3) it is temporary and expires in 2030 when the next census comes out. I hope a majority of voters vote with me.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pamela Bailey, Rancho Bernardo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cNo on 50: It\u2019s not the high road\u201d (Oct. 17): Your editorial is misleading. The Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-343132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115463179884236504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}