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Mark Z. Barabak: Here's something important most people in California are totally ignoring. (No, not Arnold)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a windowless room, in a boxy state office building a block from the Capitol, 14 individuals are busy mapping the political future of California.

Chosen from more than 30,000 applicants, their ranks include a seminary professor, a civil engineer and an investigator for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The youngest, age 30, was in high school when California voters created her job on the Citizens Redistricting Commission.

The panel and its work are a legacy of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who promoted Proposition 11 as a

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