In 2001, then-Rep. Loretta Sanchez explained to the Orange County Register how gerrymandering worked after the 2000 U.S. Census.

“If my colleagues are smart, they’ll pay their $20,000, and Michael [Berman] will draw the district they can win in. Those who have refused to pay? God help them.”

As columnist Dan Walters explained, Berman was a top Democratic Party honcho who pioneered “microtargeting voters” through computer algorithms to gerrymander legislative and congressional districts, which then were drawn by the Democrat-dominated Legislature.

As a result of that and other outrages, in 2008 voters passed Proposition 11, the Voters FIRST Act. It gave redistricting of Assembly and state Senate districts to a new, independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, consisting of 14 members:

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