Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, is [Tony Quinn]'s Democratic counterpart as a former legislative redistricting consultant. Like Quinn, Cain doesn't think lawmakers should draw the lines.

Additionally, Prop. 77 overreaches by not waiting for the next census in 2010 to redistrict. It requires a politically disruptive, mid-decade shake-up of districts for the 2006 elections. That's logistically impossible. Conceivably 2008 could work, but by then the population data would be ancient.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Poizner, a Republican running for state insurance commissioner, was named by [Arnold Schwarzenegger] last week to head his Prop. 77 campaign. Polls show the measure losing badly.