On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Some of defeated measures seemed to have merits- anti-gerrymandering
> and to regulation of prescription drugs, no? Also, the anti-union and
> anti-abortion measures almost passed - whereas the anti-
> gerrymandering and
> prescription measures were soundly defeated.
>
The redrawing of districts was to give Republicans more control. A panel of judges is not independent of politics. The regulation of prescription drugs bill was sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry in opposition to the second prescription drug initiative sponsored by "consumers". It had a clause in there that would have allowed the state to withhold drugs from the Medi-Cal program to force the drug company's hand since compliance was only voluntary. These are not progressive measures.
Marta