Debating California’s New Boundaries
Redistricting: Improved Political Representation Or More of the Same?
Law professor Jessica Levinson opened a panel on California’s redistricting efforts by quoting panelist Dan Schnur, a veteran political communications strategist and director of University of Southern California’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.
“For most normal people, ‘redistricting’ is the most boring word in the English language,” Schnur told the Los Angeles Times last week. “But for members of Congress and state legislators, it’s a cause for full-out panic. … This is musical chairs with switchblades.”
While Schnur stuck by the second part of his statement, he apologized for the first …
