Citizens Must Drive Electoral Reform

By Heather Gerken
Special to Roll Call
Nov. 15, 2005, 12 a.m.

In his column on the failure of redistricting initiatives to pass in Ohio and California last week, Stuart Rothenberg gets the diagnosis right (“On Redistricting, Voters Have Spoken Up for the Status Quo,” Nov. 10). But, like most U.S. reformers, he overlooks a promising cure for the problem he identifies — one that could help reformers overcome the hurdles they face in getting reform through the initiative process.



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Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article

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