GUEST COLUMN
Twenty years ago on a hot, humid, mid-summer evening, I sat in a non-descript office in front of a Dell 486 computer in Sacramento, California. The downtown office sat directly over an Indian restaurant, and the triple-digit heat combined with curry made for something less than the most pleasant of circumstances. Sitting right behind me on my left was a certain state legislator, whose name shall go unstated here. Sitting behind me on my right was another state legislator, likewise anonymous to protect the guilty. The two legislators held neighboring districts, and the office was that of the Assembly Republican Caucus redistricting staff, of which I was the most junior member,
