changing democracy

[bolson]

Last Friday I had a nice chat with a staffer at my state assembly member (Pedro Nava)'s office. Without an appointment, I walked in and handed her a nice flowery cover letter, 3 pages of rough draft bill text and my analysis of the June 6 Primary in which I describe how 26 races in California went to a 'winner' with less than 50% of the vote and 9 of those had a better than 40% chance that the 2nd place candidate should have won. We then proceeded to talk about the bill and how it works. She tried to play devils advocate and poke holes in what I had. We probably talked about this stuff for ten or twenty minutes. I don't know how far it will get with just that. I'll probably have to call back every couple weeks for the next year to try and poke it along.

I also mailed a copy off to my state senator, Tom McClintock, since I didn't feel like driving an hour down to Thousand Oaks. I'm curious to see what if any response I get from this.