Eli Broad

I'm still very dubious, but John Wildemuth makes the case on a San Francisco Chronicle blog. The main point is: money is rolling into the Prop 11 initiative to remove redistricting of state legislative districts from the hands of the legislature. (Congressional districts are, unfortunately, exempt). But opposition money has been very slow to materialize.

One word of warning to the Yes on 11 side. There's been talk about making this a populist campaign against the legislature and the powers that be. I don't think that will sell when you're getting by the state's elite, including Eli Broad, John Doerr and Angelo Tsakopoulous. Better to argue simply and honestly that this initiative might make the legislature work a little bit better, and leave it at that.