{"id":199384,"date":"2007-08-06T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/06\/republican-are-for-rules-for-everyone-else\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T10:01:00","slug":"republican-are-for-rules-for-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/06\/republican-are-for-rules-for-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Are For Rules for Everyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2007\/08\/06\/070806taco_talk_hertzberg\">interesting comment on a little piece of Republithug rule gaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Two weeks ago, one of the most important Republican lawyers in Sacramento quietly filed a ballot initiative that would end the practice of granting all fifty-five of California\u2019s electoral votes to the statewide winner. Instead, it would award two of them to the statewide winner and the rest, one by one, to the winner in each congressional district. Nineteen of the fifty-three districts are represented by Republicans, but Bush carried twenty-two districts in 2004. The bottom line is that the initiative, if passed, would spot the Republican ticket something in the neighborhood of twenty electoral votes\u2014votes that it wouldn\u2019t get under the rules prevailing in every other sizable state in the Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These were the same people who were screaming that a lost (stolen) election in 2000 had to be played under the rules that were there.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrik Herzberg&#8217;s final words on this are definitive:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>It\u2019s the lotusland equivalent of Tom DeLay\u2019s 2003 midterm redistricting in Texas, except with a sweeter smell, a better disguise, and larger stakes. And the only way Californians will reject it is if they have a chance to think about it first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker has an interesting comment on a little piece of Republithug rule gaming. Two weeks ago, one of the most important Republican lawyers in Sacramento quietly filed a ballot initiative that would end the practice of granting all fifty-five of California\u2019s electoral votes to the statewide winner. Instead, it would award two of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}