An All-Star Cast at PPIC Forum on Redistricting Reform Today

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The Public Policy Institute of California has lined up an All-Star cast for their forum on legislative reform today at noon in Sacramento : Willie Brown. Pete Wilson. Jim Brulte. John Burton. Fabian Nunez. The group will focus on a report unveiled today by the PPIC.
 
Among the recommendations of the report:

• Limiting campaign donations and encouraging public financing of campaigns
• Open primaries
• Non-partisan elections
• "Cross filing" that will allow candidates to run in more than one party's primary

The PPIC report also downplayed the significant of redistricting: Noting that "districting is not destiny," PPIC says "Redistricting would probably soften partisanship only at the margins." It also noted that Schwarzenegger's last initiative "might easily have produced an uncompetitive, bipartisan plan, the opposite of the measure's intention."