CA campaign v2

California today, at all levels of government, is the least democratic state in the nation when it comes to democracy’s most essential metric: representation.

• California State Assembly districts comprise 500,000 inhabitants, by far the biggest of any state.
• California State Senate Districts contain almost one million people, which is also unheard of in any other state.
• Many California county governments have citizen-to-elected-official ratios of hundreds of thousands to one. In Los Angeles County, one County Supervisor is supposed to represent 2 million people.
• The cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco have city-council-member-to-population ratios of 1 to 266,000, 159,000, 100,00 and 80,000 respectively.

In California, government has moved so far from the control of the people that in most places the people are hardly represented at all. Instead, elected officials serve the special and political interests that keep them in power.

But in California the people, themselves, have power also. Through citizens’ initiatives, the people of California can amend the State Constitution, and revise local charters, to realize an Information Age political system of Small-district Democracy.

It is a big and essential task for us, our families, and for generations to come. We need the help of every citizen who cares about democracy. Please join us.