The NY Times offers this report, which begins: “Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Monday that if elected governor he will end a practice that many say is at the root of Albany’s dysfunctional government: the power of state lawmakers to draw legislative districts so that incumbents are perennially re-elected. Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat, called the current system ‘a classic conflict of interest’ and said that as governor he would push for a nonpartisan commission to draw district lines. If the Legislature did not agree to such a change, he pledged that he would veto the next set of district lines established unless the boundaries were ‘reflective of democracy, not incumbent protection.'”