TO: CalDem
RE: [OT] THAT Problem….
3-4 metropolitan counties run the other 48-49 counties completely out of state politics. — CalDem
….is EVERYWHERE in this nation.
It’s not necessarily a matter of party politics, although most metropolitan areas seem to be dominated by the Democrat Party.
The most important reason for that problem stems from a Supreme Court ruling in 1964; Reynolds v. Simms. Infamously misnomered as the One-Man/One-Vote ruling.
What it did was destroy the balance of legislative power between metropolitan and rural areas by declaring that at the state level the state senate MUST be elected based on population and NOT on geography. This destroyed the concept of what we enjoy at the federal level in Congress known as The Great Compromise; wherein the House of Representatives is based on population of a state and the Senate is based on all states being equal, geographically.
Now, here in Colorado, the Denver metropolitan area holds 17 of the 35 seats in the Colorado State Senate. And Denver is continually sucking up all the resources it can handle through that overbearing presence in the upper house.
EVERY state in the Union, less Nebraska—which has a one-house legislative body—was affected by this insidious and heinous ruling. And the situation is just going to keep getting worse until the Supremes revisit this ruling and overthrow it.
I would LIKE to see the McCain-Palin campaign address this problem.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
