In response to Tony Quinn’s comments in this post, Bruce Cain emails to me for posting the following comments:

Tony is indeed a friend, but he has been seriously misled as to the facts. First Karin is a registered decline to state whose biggest issue is more dogparks. Secondly, and most importantly, he is right that it would be inappropriate for me to draw lines for the commission but wrong to think that I have any interest in doing so. I will have nothing to do with the Commission’s technical services nor derive one cent from any contract that Karin might get. That is a solemn pledge. Thirdly, the commission is putting its technical services out to bid, not sole sourcing it. Fourthly, the statewide database has been run for two decades with no complaint about bias—we provide data in a nonpartisan way to all members of the public. Lastly, the Commission makes the line decisions. The job of the line drawers is to follow the direction of the Commission. Then there are the various false statements about my drawing lines for the Democrats in 90’s and 2000 by others, not Tony, but they are too silly to respond to.