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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, August 25th, 2025:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003cli>State Lawmakers have paved the way for Governor Newsom’s redistricting plan to go before voters on a November ballot, but not all voters are sold on the idea of taking a partisan approach to draw up California’s district map–even if Texas plans to do the same in an attempt to tip the mid-term elections in the GOP’s favor. Some worry the move would take California into murky political waters down the line.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wildfire victims in Los Angeles County are starting to rebuild their lives. A bill is making its way through Sacramento to make sure that renters are not excluded from help that is extended to home owners–however, it’s facing mounting criticism from both landlords and tenants.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Some Experts Argue California’s Redistricting Gambit Puts Politics Over People\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Governor Newsom has been vocal about the need for California to meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/23/trump-redistricting-california-texas-gerrymander-00521573\">proverbial fire with fire\u003c/a>, and redraw its district maps in order to counter Texas’s gerrymander plans, which would create five more winnable House seats for the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Those that have been instrumental in making sure California’s redistricting process best represents state residents, however, are not so sold on the plan. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050983/californias-political-maps-are-drawn-independently-will-newsom-change-that\">There is worry that this heavily partisan redistricting plan\u003c/a> will lead to a massive shift in the state’s political landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">In 2010, California voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/20_11_2010.aspx\">Prop 20\u003c/a>, which mandated that the \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> be tasked with drawing up the state’s congressional district maps every 10 years. The Prop passed with more than 60 percent of the vote, and was lauded as a way to create a district map that represented the residential make-up of the state, instead of a map that was drawn for purely political gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Well, don’t mess with the great Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] Today, what California’s new proposed congressional maps look like, and what it means for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] The message that we’ve heard from Newsom both at this rally and kind of for weeks has been California did not start this fight. This is parties, you know, politicians stepping in saying, we expressly want to redraw these lines to help our party. And it started in Texas where President Trump went to Governor Greg Abbott in Texas and state legislative leaders and said, I want you to redraw the state’s congressional lines to add five seats for Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:02:20] We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district all across this country, not just in Texas. We need to stand up, not just California. Other blue states need to stand up. We need to be firm in our resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] The message that we’ve heard from Newsom both at this rally and kind of for weeks has been that when you have states like Texas, most notably that has pursued a gerrymander, a redraw of their districts to help Republicans, that there needed to be some response from Democrats here in California to redraw our maps to help the Democratic Party in next year’s midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:03:00] It’s not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, and talk about the way the world should be. We have got to recognize the cards that have been dealt. And we have got meet fire with fire. And we’ve got to be held to a higher level of accountability. So that’s what this is about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Explain, Guy, the mechanics here. How is this different from how California currently draws its maps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:34] Usually the redistricting in California and other states happens after the census comes out. It’s rare that you have new lines being drawn in the middle of the decade without a new census. So currently in California we have an independent citizens redistricting commission. This body was created by the voters back in 2008 and this was really a response to the previous practice in California where the lines were drawn by politicians. Voters had enough of that and you saw this campaign led by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take the power away from elected officials drawing the lines and give it towards this independent commission. And the commission does not look at who is gonna benefit politically from the lines. In fact, they don’t even look at voter registration. They don’t really look at any political indicator. They’re looking at California and these districts through the lens of what’s the most fair way to draw lines. Let’s figure out how to make sure we’re not splitting up cities. Where they’re places of worship, where the big business corridors in the state, and let’s try to group those together in these maps. This would be a big change from that. This would go to the voters and say, can we give the power to draw these congressional districts back to the state legislature up until 2030? And the state Legislature is going to approve a map before the election so voters will know going into the polls, okay, if we give power back to legislature for this map, this is what they have in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:02] And of course, the big news most recently is what exactly those maps are gonna look like. So what did we learn about what these new districts would look like and can you tick through some of the biggest changes there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:19] Here’s kind of from South to North, how the map makers thought about these lines to help Democrats. Perhaps the biggest change was the 41st Congressional District, which is in the Inland Empire. It’s currently represented by Republican Ken Calvert. That district was basically just lifted up into the air and dropped into LA County, which is as blue as you can get, very democratic. You know, that right away is going to make it difficult for Ken Calvert to win re-election in the district he, you know, currently nominally represents. The kind of fallout from that was you had another district currently held by Republican Darrell Issa near San Diego move up towards Palm Springs. Now that becomes more of a Democratic district. You had changes in the Central Valley where districts were pulled north. Both to help incumbent Democrats like Adam Gray, his district around Merced was moved up towards Stockton. That helps it become more democratic and changes to the Bakersfield district helped by Republican David Valadao, making it more of a Democratic district. And then in Northern California, you had two major changes to the lines here. The first is around Sacramento, where Republican Kevin Kiley represents this district that starts kind of in the suburbs east of Sacramento and then runs down the spine of the state. His district now shifts more towards the city of Sacramento, again, towards a more liberal democratic area. And then the last big change starts at the very Northern part of the State. This is the first congressional district. Right now, it covers a lot of conservative areas in the far north of the state, up to the Oregon border. And when this district was redrawn, it actually is pulled down into Sonoma County, all the way down to including the city of Santa Rosa. So suddenly, the biggest share of this district is now Sonoma county. Now we know Sonoma country, part of the Bay, very heavily democratic. This will make the first congressional district very difficult for a Republican. Like the one who currently holds it, Doug LaMalfa, to actually win re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:40] So if I’m counting that right, that’s five districts where there are currently sitting Republicans, now potentially under these new maps and under these districts in peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Right, and that was the goal all along, right? Because Texas, their lines move five districts towards the Republican column. The goal here was to kind of counter that with five districts in California move towards Democrats. Now we should say, these are just statistics on paper where you now have these five districts that Democrats could win. We still have to have the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Well, let’s zoom in on Sonoma County real quick. What has the reaction been like since these new proposed maps have been released?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:29] Yeah, I mean, I’ll say just at the outset, this whole, you know, map making and line drawing is a very insider game, right? If you just walk the streets of Santa Rosa today, there’s probably not going to be many people giving, you know, thoughts on how this line redraw works. But for the folks who are really kind of involved in Democratic Party politics in the North Bay, this is a huge deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pat Sabo \u003c/strong>[00:08:52] The Republicans have pushed us into a stand that we have to take. And if we don’t, then we have no rights standing up and saying that democracy matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:04] Pat Sabo is the party chair of the Sonoma County Democrats. What you hear from Pat is what we’ve heard a lot from kind of the rank and file Democrats in California and across the country, which is the desire to really be more confrontational in their politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pat Sabo \u003c/strong>[00:09:22] People have felt absolutely helpless in what they can do. There’s now something concrete that they can do to fight back against this blatant takeover of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:36] This is what is at the heart of this plan, I think for Newsom and other Democrats. It’s like, let’s kind of go on the offensive. Let’s make this move that, yeah, it goes against norms. It goes against, you know, kind of good governance principles, but let’s have more of a partisan fight at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pat Sabo \u003c/strong>[00:09:55] We know that we have to work hard to get this done in a very short period of time. And that is to do boots on the ground, to get out, to reach out to our communities, and to educate as many as quickly as we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:09] What we’ve heard from Pat and other kind of party activists is a real excitement for getting out there and talking to voters about this plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:22] We’ll have more with KQED politics and government correspondent Guy Marzorotti after the break. Stay with us. Guy, are all Democrats super pumped about this? Or have you heard more mixed feelings from people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:44] Yeah, no, I think there’s definitely going to be some mixed feelings about this. There was a poll done by Politico and some groups at Berkeley last week that asked, like, would you be in favor of keeping the independent redistricting commission or handing it over these line drawing powers over to the legislature? And over 60% of Democrats said, no, we want to keep the commission. Now, part of that is like how you frame the question, right? When it becomes more about Trump and fighting Republicans, I would expect to those numbers change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Hadley \u003c/strong>[00:11:23] I’m afraid that people will distrust government more. You know, they’ll just see it as another ploy by the politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] A good example of this is Beth Hadley, who’s the president of the Sonoma Valley Democrats. And she said, yeah, you know, like she has some reservations about this idea that if you go ahead and you give redistricting powers back to elected officials, it could make people more distrustful of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Hadley \u003c/strong>[00:11:46] They’ll feel like Democrats are sinking to the level of Republicans. I mean, there, there are a lot of cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:53] But at the end of the day, Beth falls where I think a lot of Democrats could potentially fall with this, is that if you start viewing it through more of a partisan lens and the desire to take on Trump and take on Republicans, then the idea of redrawing these lines becomes a more attractive proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Hadley \u003c/strong>[00:12:11] We need to take back the house. We need some guardrails and whatever that takes. As much as I dislike the idea of gerrymandering, I think we have to support this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:22] What about the other side of that coin? I imagine Republicans in California are not very happy about these proposed maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] Yeah, I mean, Republicans have come out really strongly opposed to these redistricting plans. Obviously, there’s a kernel of self-preservation in here, right, like this congressional map would hurt Republicans, would likely lead some of them to lose their seats. And Republicans have really turned this back to the idea that voters in the first place in California were the ones who approved this independent commission and saying that it’s a betrayal. Of the voters to now go ahead and hand these line drawing powers back to the state legislature for congressional lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rep. Kevin Kiley \u003c/strong>[00:13:06] California voters overwhelmingly voted in 2010 to say that we should have voters choosing our representatives, we shouldn’t have representatives choosing their voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:16] So Kevin Kiley is a Republican Congress member who represents the area around Sacramento and actually much of Eastern California. And he’s come out as a strong opponent of this redistricting plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rep. Kevin Kiley \u003c/strong>[00:13:29] When you degrade the electoral process in a way that we’re seeing right now, especially in California, then everyone suffers as a result of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:40] In fact, he’s gone so far as to even introduce legislation in the House of Representatives to ban all mid-decade redistricting. So basically, stop what California’s doing, stop what Texas is doing. And Kylie has called on the Speaker of the House Of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and said, you know, he wants to see the Speaker come out and say, let’s just stop all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rep. Kevin Kiley \u003c/strong>[00:13:59] I’m willing to use any and all means, legislative means necessary to get the bill passed, but even before that, the speaker and leader Jeffries could show some leadership and say, enough is enough. This is not the sort of thing that Americans want. Let’s just call a truce on all of this and get back to the issues that really matter to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:20] Well that’s that guy, I mean a lot needs to happen before these maps become the blueprint, right? So what exactly is the timeline here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:31] We’re just this week kind of watching this move through the legislative process in Sacramento. They’re gonna go through the motions this week and kind of take the votes needed to get this on the ballot in November. And they do need to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:46] If ultimately everything goes how Democrats want it to with these new districts, how much of an impact could these new district actually have on Trump’s ability to do what he wants in his last two years of his term on things like immigration, the environment, all these issues that Californians really care about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:15:12] I’m looking at this redistricting battle as kind of one piece in what will ultimately decide the House elections in 2026. This is kind of like setting the roadmap for where these elections will take place. There’s still all the other things that actually decide an election. What are the issues of the day? Most notably in a midterm, it’s often a reflection and a referendum on the president. So how are voters perceptions of the economy? How are voter perceptions of the job? That Trump is doing as president, who are the candidates that ultimately end up running in these seats. Those will all go a long way in determining who actually controls the house and whether or not Republicans will continue to have unified control of government. I will say that the line drawing matters perhaps more in this election just because we have seen to some extent kind of a partisan gridlock in the house map. There are fewer and fewer congressional districts and seats that are really actually up for grabs. Both parties are battling for fewer and fewer truly competitive seats. And so I think that’s why you’re seeing so much emphasis and so much attention on these line drawing battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:33] Well, Guy, thank you so much for breaking this all down for me. Um, I didn’t think it would be an election year, but here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:41] Here we are. Yep, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:54] So I’m walking away from this conversation with Guy like, okay, the real headline here are these five districts that could change from red to blue. I don’t live in any of those districts and neither do most people in the Bay Area actually. But your district could still change. Actually under this proposed new map, the eighth district where I live and actually the most diverse. Congressional district in California would look really different. It’s pretty much doubled in size and some of the cities that used to be grouped together would instead be split off into other districts in order to help Democrats. So while the conversation that we just had here is really about this larger fight against Trump, I’m also thinking about how this will look on the ground for me. And how even if my district isn’t necessarily flipping from red to blue, it’s still changing. And that when you redraw congressional districts based on party lines, the very specific and very local needs of the places that we live, take a back seat.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] Late last week, Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium inside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, gearing up for another fight against the Trump administration. On the podium were the words, election rigging response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:26] Donald Trump, you have poked the bear, and we will punch back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:34] After pressure from President Trump, Republicans in Texas are trying to redraw the state’s congressional districts five years early in order to win more Republican seats during the 2026 midterm elections. Now, California voters will likely be asked to weigh in in November on whether to redrew our own congressional maps. To counteract what’s happening in states like Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] Here’s the good thing about California, folks, we’re the size of 21 state populations combined. We’re the fourth-largest economy in the world. We are not a small, isolated state. I know they say, don’t mess with Texas. Well, don’t mess with the great Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] Today, what California’s new proposed congressional maps look like, and what it means for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] The message that we’ve heard from Newsom both at this rally and kind of for weeks has been California did not start this fight. This is parties, you know, politicians stepping in saying, we expressly want to redraw these lines to help our party. And it started in Texas where President Trump went to Governor Greg Abbott in Texas and state legislative leaders and said, I want you to redraw the state’s congressional lines to add five seats for Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:02:20] We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district all across this country, not just in Texas. We need to stand up, not just California. Other blue states need to stand up. We need to be firm in our resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] The message that we’ve heard from Newsom both at this rally and kind of for weeks has been that when you have states like Texas, most notably that has pursued a gerrymander, a redraw of their districts to help Republicans, that there needed to be some response from Democrats here in California to redraw our maps to help the Democratic Party in next year’s midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:03:00] It’s not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, and talk about the way the world should be. We have got to recognize the cards that have been dealt. And we have got meet fire with fire. And we’ve got to be held to a higher level of accountability. So that’s what this is about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Explain, Guy, the mechanics here. How is this different from how California currently draws its maps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:34] Usually the redistricting in California and other states happens after the census comes out. It’s rare that you have new lines being drawn in the middle of the decade without a new census. So currently in California we have an independent citizens redistricting commission. This body was created by the voters back in 2008 and this was really a response to the previous practice in California where the lines were drawn by politicians. Voters had enough of that and you saw this campaign led by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take the power away from elected officials drawing the lines and give it towards this independent commission. And the commission does not look at who is gonna benefit politically from the lines. In fact, they don’t even look at voter registration. They don’t really look at any political indicator. They’re looking at California and these districts through the lens of what’s the most fair way to draw lines. Let’s figure out how to make sure we’re not splitting up cities. Where they’re places of worship, where the big business corridors in the state, and let’s try to group those together in these maps. This would be a big change from that. This would go to the voters and say, can we give the power to draw these congressional districts back to the state legislature up until 2030? And the state Legislature is going to approve a map before the election so voters will know going into the polls, okay, if we give power back to legislature for this map, this is what they have in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:02] And of course, the big news most recently is what exactly those maps are gonna look like. So what did we learn about what these new districts would look like and can you tick through some of the biggest changes there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:19] Here’s kind of from South to North, how the map makers thought about these lines to help Democrats. Perhaps the biggest change was the 41st Congressional District, which is in the Inland Empire. It’s currently represented by Republican Ken Calvert. That district was basically just lifted up into the air and dropped into LA County, which is as blue as you can get, very democratic. You know, that right away is going to make it difficult for Ken Calvert to win re-election in the district he, you know, currently nominally represents. The kind of fallout from that was you had another district currently held by Republican Darrell Issa near San Diego move up towards Palm Springs. Now that becomes more of a Democratic district. You had changes in the Central Valley where districts were pulled north. Both to help incumbent Democrats like Adam Gray, his district around Merced was moved up towards Stockton. That helps it become more democratic and changes to the Bakersfield district helped by Republican David Valadao, making it more of a Democratic district. And then in Northern California, you had two major changes to the lines here. The first is around Sacramento, where Republican Kevin Kiley represents this district that starts kind of in the suburbs east of Sacramento and then runs down the spine of the state. His district now shifts more towards the city of Sacramento, again, towards a more liberal democratic area. And then the last big change starts at the very Northern part of the State. This is the first congressional district. Right now, it covers a lot of conservative areas in the far north of the state, up to the Oregon border. And when this district was redrawn, it actually is pulled down into Sonoma County, all the way down to including the city of Santa Rosa. So suddenly, the biggest share of this district is now Sonoma county. Now we know Sonoma country, part of the Bay, very heavily democratic. This will make the first congressional district very difficult for a Republican. Like the one who currently holds it, Doug LaMalfa, to actually win re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:40] So if I’m counting that right, that’s five districts where there are currently sitting Republicans, now potentially under these new maps and under these districts in peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Right, and that was the goal all along, right? Because Texas, their lines move five districts towards the Republican column. The goal here was to kind of counter that with five districts in California move towards Democrats. Now we should say, these are just statistics on paper where you now have these five districts that Democrats could win. We still have to have the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Well, let’s zoom in on Sonoma County real quick. What has the reaction been like since these new proposed maps have been released?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:29] Yeah, I mean, I’ll say just at the outset, this whole, you know, map making and line drawing is a very insider game, right? If you just walk the streets of Santa Rosa today, there’s probably not going to be many people giving, you know, thoughts on how this line redraw works. But for the folks who are really kind of involved in Democratic Party politics in the North Bay, this is a huge deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pat Sabo \u003c/strong>[00:08:52] The Republicans have pushed us into a stand that we have to take. And if we don’t, then we have no rights standing up and saying that democracy matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:04] Pat Sabo is the party chair of the Sonoma County Democrats. What you hear from Pat is what we’ve heard a lot from kind of the rank and file Democrats in California and across the country, which is the desire to really be more confrontational in their politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pat Sabo \u003c/strong>[00:09:22] People have felt absolutely helpless in what they can do. There’s now something concrete that they can do to fight back against this blatant takeover of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:36] This is what is at the heart of this plan, I think for Newsom and other Democrats. It’s like, let’s kind of go on the offensive. Let’s make this move that, yeah, it goes against norms. 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Or have you heard more mixed feelings from people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:44] Yeah, no, I think there’s definitely going to be some mixed feelings about this. There was a poll done by Politico and some groups at Berkeley last week that asked, like, would you be in favor of keeping the independent redistricting commission or handing it over these line drawing powers over to the legislature? And over 60% of Democrats said, no, we want to keep the commission. Now, part of that is like how you frame the question, right? When it becomes more about Trump and fighting Republicans, I would expect to those numbers change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Hadley \u003c/strong>[00:11:23] I’m afraid that people will distrust government more. 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The state’s voter-approved independent redistricting commission, which advocates against political gerrymandering, is now caught in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051012\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051012 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/320Jeanne-Headshot-320x320-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/320Jeanne-Headshot-320x320-1.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/320Jeanne-Headshot-320x320-1-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Raya, former chair of California’s first independent redistricting commission. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jeanne Raya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2008, California voters first approved a ballot measure that removed the power of state legislators to draw their own seats. (In Texas, state lawmakers are currently responsible for redrawing congressional districts.) Two years later, California voters decided to expand the commission’s authority to include congressional maps. This measure garnered over 66% support statewide, according to political data analyst Paul Mitchell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raya said the maps drawn up during her tenure survived multiple challenges until the next commission began its work in 2020. She said the group’s non-partisan approach, based on population changes and in compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act, helped represent more communities of color that the political system had historically overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did draw districts that reflected communities of interest that had not previously had the attention they should have because legislators were drawing districts to choose voters that would assure incumbents staying in office,” Raya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s past work resulted, for example, in three more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/12/california-redistricting-final-maps/\">Latino-majority districts\u003c/a> in the Central Valley. 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We’re in a deficit, and we’re going to think about spending a lot of money to put up an initiative that is the governor’s initiative or the legislature’s initiative. So [that’s] partisan right there, as opposed to an initiative from the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redistricting moves have also drawn criticism from Republicans. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kevin-kiley\">California Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin\u003c/a>, whose seat would be in jeopardy, said he plans to introduce a bill that would invalidate any new political maps drawn up before the 2030 Census. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What seemed a few weeks ago like a far-fetched political fantasy ahead of the 2026 midterms has quickly evolved into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043766/newsom-tries-to-find-political-footing-in-clash-with-trump\">high-stakes showdown\u003c/a> enveloping states across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Texas this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/25/texas-redistricting-midterm-elections-trump/\">began an off-cycle redistricting process\u003c/a> meant to shore up Republicans’ slim House majority, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. 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We have got to fight fire with fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one major obstacle to the governor’s ambitions, however: While the Legislature draws district lines in Texas, California relies on a bipartisan citizen redistricting commission protected by the state Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The Sacramento Capitol building lit up at night\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-2048x1356.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Capitol building in Sacramento. 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Two years later, voters overwhelmingly passed another amendment expanding the commission’s authority to congressional maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission in California became a national model for advocates who hoped to end the partisan gerrymandering that has contributed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gerrymandering-competitive-districts-near-extinction\">decline in competitive House seats\u003c/a> and the country’s fractious, sectarian politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Newsom, who said he otherwise supports independent redistricting, is exploring multiple options for working around the commission to squeeze more Democratic districts out of California, if Texas follows through on its plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would probably involve calling a special election, Newsom said, though he is still discussing with the Legislature what sort of proposal they might present to voters. Would it include a new map to approve or create another process to draw on? Would the commission be temporarily or permanently repealed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a fluid conversation,” he said. “We’re gaming all those things out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump turns up the heat in Texas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>States typically redraw their congressional seats once per decade, after the census, to ensure the districts are all roughly equal in population. The most recent maps were drawn after the 2020 election and took effect in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month, Trump’s political team began \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/trump-texas-redistricting.html\">pressuring Republican leaders in Texas\u003c/a> to revisit the state’s district lines and create additional GOP seats. The party won a five-seat majority in the House last November, the narrowest in nearly a century, leaving little room for error as Trump tries to enact his legislative agenda, putting control of the chamber at risk if next year’s midterm is a wave election \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/692879/independents-drive-trump-approval-second-term-low.aspx\">against the unpopular president\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12049817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230817-PETALUMA-VINEYARD-FARMWORKERS-AP-ER-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Despite opposition from Republicans in the Texas congressional delegation — who worried that diluting their conservative voter bases in redistricting could inadvertently make their seats vulnerable — Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/greg-abbott-redistricting-floods-thc-20762733.php\">called a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to redraw the maps. He is targeting four Democratic seats in the Dallas and Houston areas that the Trump administration has deemed “unconstitutional racial gerrymanders” because they have high numbers of Black and Latino voters. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/24/texas-redistricting-hearing-house-legislature-congress/\">first public hearing took place on Thursday\u003c/a>, with Texas Democratic lawmakers slamming the move as a “power grab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boldly political maneuver \u003ca href=\"https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/gop-redistricting-next/\">juiced similar efforts\u003c/a> in other Republican states, including Ohio and Missouri, that could further pad a GOP majority, while setting off alarm bells among Democrats nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as party leaders voice their outrage, they have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/texas-redistricting-republicans-democrats.html\">fewer options to fight back\u003c/a>, because congressional districts in many of the largest Democratic states, such as California, New York and New Jersey, are drawn by independent commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one has been more outspoken than Newsom, who weeks ago began publicly floating the idea of sidestepping California’s commission to redraw more congressional districts in Democrats’ favor if Texas moves forward with its plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But it’s no sure thing in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s a legally dubious and politically fraught endeavor. Even some of Newsom’s fellow Democrats have expressed skepticism because of the precedent it would set, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/alex_lee/status/1945273178680328487\">including \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/newsom-jolts-california-house-maps-texas-00458927\">Assemblymember Alex Lee of Milpitas\u003c/a>, whose vote may be needed to place a measure on the ballot. 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The Justice Department recently sued Texas over its new redistricting maps, saying the plans discriminate against Latinos and other minority voters.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hallie Balch, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman\"]'California’s redistricting committee has entirely lost track of the people who reside in the districts they have drawn.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California is losing one seat for the first time in its history because the population in other states is growing faster, Texas, Florida, Colorado and North Carolina are among the states gaining seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis by Sacramento research firm Redistricting Partners found that 44 of the new California House districts would have been carried by Democratic Gov. 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House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s district, anchored in Bakersfield, became more solidly Republican in the new maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most attention has focused on California’s loss of a congressional seat, analysts said the legislative maps drawn for 40 state senators and 80 state Assembly members mark big wins for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maps essentially lock in Democratic supermajorities for the next 10 years, said Rob Pyers, research director of the nonpartisan California Target Book, which closely tracks redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have been teetering on the brink of irrelevance in the heavily Democratic state for years, and Democrats control every statewide office and dominate the Legislature and congressional delegations. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Citizens Redistricting Commission took a key step Wednesday night toward setting the state's future political lines, approving a first draft of maps for state Senate, Assembly and U.S. House districts after three days of marathon meetings that came after months of public deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the panel will take at least two weeks of public comment on their plans before making any changes. 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That's why the proposed lines fracture some current districts — like the one with the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County cities currently represented by Garamendi like Vacaville and Dixon are now joined in a district with Napa and Sonoma county cities represented by fellow Democrat Mike Thompson. That could lead Garamendi to run against Thompson or shift to a different district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keep in mind, a lot could change to avoid an incumbent-vs.-incumbent clash. For one, congressmembers don't have to live in the district they serve, so an incumbent could theoretically run in a more favorable district. 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Some early map ideas even paired the region with cities in the Central Valley like Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2021/11/02/tri-valley-mayors-highlight-regional-collaboration-during-annual-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wishes of the region's five mayors to remain in one district\u003c/a>, the draft maps put Pleasanton and Livermore in a separate Assembly and Congressional district from Danville, San Ramon and parts of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just Tri-Valley advocates pushing for a change here: A representative with the group Bay Rising, which works to build political power for communities of color, asked the commission on Wednesday to separate the city of Hayward from the \"much richer, much whiter\" Tri-Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896022 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1285\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg 1285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1285px) 100vw, 1285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposed state Assembly district stretches north from Napa to more conservative counties. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Any chance for Republicans to represent the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No Republican has represented a piece of the Bay Area in Congress or the state legislature since 2018, when Tri-Valley Assemblymember Catharine Baker lost her bid for a third term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there's any hope for Republicans in these new draft maps, it's in a proposed Assembly district which stretches more than 150 miles north from American Canyon, in southern Napa County, to conservative Tehama County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of population growth in the northern regions of the state forced the commission to pull district lines far south in order to loop in the required population. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> consider the current location (or feelings) of incumbent politicians. That's why the proposed lines fracture some current districts — like the one with the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County cities currently represented by Garamendi like Vacaville and Dixon are now joined in a district with Napa and Sonoma county cities represented by fellow Democrat Mike Thompson. That could lead Garamendi to run against Thompson or shift to a different district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keep in mind, a lot could change to avoid an incumbent-vs.-incumbent clash. For one, congressmembers don't have to live in the district they serve, so an incumbent could theoretically run in a more favorable district. And if any member of the Bay Area congressional delegation were to retire, another safe Democratic seat would open for the taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1479px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896025 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1479\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg 1479w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-800x448.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-1020x571.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1479px) 100vw, 1479px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The draft redistricting maps no longer split San Francisco's Assembly district into clean east-west lines. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Assembly split\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The maps split San Francisco into two Assembly districts, but instead of a straight east-west split, the western district forms a \"v\" shape, from the Richmond District south to Daly City and back north into the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Some early map ideas even paired the region with cities in the Central Valley like Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2021/11/02/tri-valley-mayors-highlight-regional-collaboration-during-annual-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wishes of the region's five mayors to remain in one district\u003c/a>, the draft maps put Pleasanton and Livermore in a separate Assembly and Congressional district from Danville, San Ramon and parts of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just Tri-Valley advocates pushing for a change here: A representative with the group Bay Rising, which works to build political power for communities of color, asked the commission on Wednesday to separate the city of Hayward from the \"much richer, much whiter\" Tri-Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896022 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1285\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg 1285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1285px) 100vw, 1285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposed state Assembly district stretches north from Napa to more conservative counties. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Any chance for Republicans to represent the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No Republican has represented a piece of the Bay Area in Congress or the state legislature since 2018, when Tri-Valley Assemblymember Catharine Baker lost her bid for a third term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there's any hope for Republicans in these new draft maps, it's in a proposed Assembly district which stretches more than 150 miles north from American Canyon, in southern Napa County, to conservative Tehama County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of population growth in the northern regions of the state forced the commission to pull district lines far south in order to loop in the required population. Despite this district's inclusion of red counties like Tehama, Colusa and Glenn, Democrats would still have a 16% voter registration advantage thanks to more liberal voters in Yolo and Napa counties being included, according to an analysis by the California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>More community input 'really critical' \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As they neared their deadline to complete these draft maps, redistricting commissioners admitted they simply ran out of time to enact some changes they had been mulling over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, commissioners labored to combine Vallejo and Richmond into a state Assembly district (as they had done in the congressional maps) — citing a desire to unite historically Black communities and workers who commute daily up or down I-80, giving them a stronger say in a single district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a lengthy debate, the commissioners couldn't draw a district within the required population limits, and decided to table the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be an idea the commission revisits after hearing public feedback, which starts next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By approving these maps and going forward, it gives us 14 days to get community input from communities before we hit the holidays and I think that's really critical,\" said Commissioner Pedro Toledo.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A congressional map that splits Long Beach into two. The city of Fresno divided into three congressional districts. A state Assembly district in the Central Valley that could reduce the power of Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are only a few of the potential flash points as California’s independent redistricting commission slogs through its third week of working on early drafts of new legislative and congressional districts for the 2022 election and beyond — and as it prepares to release its official preliminary maps today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894003\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Bay_Area_by_Sentinel-2_2019-03-11_small_version-1020x720.jpeg\"]But redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere, or could even mean blowing up entire statewide maps. And the pressure is on because commissioners face a compressed timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their foremost duty is to ensure every district in the state — 52 for Congress, 80 for state Assembly and 40 for state Senate — has about the same number of people. That’s about 761,000 Californians in each congressional district, about 988,000 in state Senate districts and 494,000 in Assembly districts. That can get complicated fast while trying to meet other requirements, such as not diluting any ethnic group’s vote and keeping districts geographically compact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s even more complex this year because California is losing a congressional seat for the first time ever — and much of the tension centers on those maps. A series of marathon and at-times confusing meetings isn’t helping matters, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners have been discussing rounds of regional “visualizations” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/11_7_9_21\">hypothetical scenarios based on their direction to the line-drawers\u003c/a> — while trying to incorporate some of the public input they’ve been receiving along the way, and in some cases going back to the drawing board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of visualizations, for example, two longtime Black members of Congress were put in the same district in Los Angeles. That was fixed in the second round, but had ripple effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel is reviewing \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1636074960/Agenda_-_Line_Drawing_Meetings_11.7-11.9.21_Final.pdf?1636074960\">the fourth set of these visualizations\u003c/a>, and worked late into Tuesday night. But there were apparently so many issues with \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQLTaP34jpKCHNLrR1rIcLur0WAB3Tja/view\">the third set of congressional districts\u003c/a> — where the biggest changes from existing districts are expected — that after a closed session Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457470063573749761?s=20\">the commission removed them from its website\u003c/a> until Monday.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size='large' align='right']Redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“Basically what we’re saying is, ‘The map is a hot mess.’ Is that correct?” Commissioner Sara Sadhwani said at Monday’s meeting, referring to congressional districts in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the commission still plans to release its \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458227353285324804?s=20\">official preliminary maps on Wednesday\u003c/a>, ahead of a \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1635536062/Agenda_11.15.21_%28DRAFT_-1%29_%281%29.pdf?1635536062\">November 15 deadline\u003c/a>. After that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">no changes can be made for two weeks as public comment meetings start November 17\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there could still be significant changes between the preliminary maps and the final maps, which are due to the secretary of state’s office by a court-ordered deadline of December 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1456381250441134089\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially given the condensed timeline, the preliminary maps won’t be perfect, said Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission. The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1458206538867175425?s=20\">commission is already acknowledging\u003c/a> that some districts still need a lot of work and that it will be doing \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">a lot of line-drawing next month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Fredy Ceja, communications director, California Citizens Redistricting Commission\"]‘You get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west.’[/pullquote]“The commissioners have been very, very responsive to the community. So if the community has said, ‘Hey, we want to stay lumped together with this community,’ they try to make that a possibility,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course, you get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west. They’re trying to weigh those conflicting opinions. But they’ve done it with a smile on their face nonetheless. I think they’re pretty excited to be at this juncture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t as thrilled — either by the potential districts or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457580057010978822?s=20\">the convoluted deliberations so far\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Partisan jockeying\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the mapping being done by an independent commission with a mix of Republicans, Democrats and independent members, the changes in districts still have ramifications for both parties — and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">hidden partisanship that continues to creep in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895368\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg\"]And with control of Congress up for grabs, a lot of attention in California and across the country is focused on any built-in advantages for Democrats or Republicans in the new U.S. House districts heading into the 2022 election. That focus heightened after Republican wins in the Nov. 2 elections, including Glenn Youngkin flipping the Virginia governor seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Party chair \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1456335589779943438?s=20\">Rusty Hicks warned that Republicans could take the House\u003c/a> by flipping only \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">five seats nationally\u003c/a>, which they could achieve through gerrymandering, and said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1457835888197529601?s=20\">some of the most competitive races are in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Kevin McCarthy — a Bakersfield Republican who hopes to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as House speaker — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article255545466.html\">claimed that any Democrat who won in 2020 by 16 percentage points or less would have to fight for their seat next year\u003c/a>. That would include six California House Democrats. But McCarthy, himself, could have a mostly new district, based on the latest draft maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_California\">Republicans hold 11 of California’s 53 U.S. House seats\u003c/a>. The second round of maps suggested nine seats with an advantage for Republicans, according to an analysis by California Target Book, a political data firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third set of lines showed nine districts where incumbents — some Republicans including Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as Democrats including Rep. Mike Levin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/congressional.pdf\">could face more competitive races, based on voter registration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter check-in tent at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters on Oct. 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Diluting voting power?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of the many challenges that the census data delay caused, the Voting Rights Act data analysis may have been one of the most consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After population numbers, the second highest criteria is that the district lines must comply with the federal Voting Rights Act — specifically, ensuring that people of color have equal access to electing representatives of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the initial scenarios, observers quickly flagged that longtime Reps. Karen Bass and Maxine Waters — both prominent Black Democrats — ended up in the same Los Angeles district. While that potential conflict was lessened because Bass is already running for Los Angeles mayor, the draft map resulted in only one L.A. district with at least 30% African American voters and likely to elect a Black representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That criticism was resolved in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/myBlackCounts/status/1455699739651969027?s=20\">the second round of visualizations\u003c/a> released and debated last week, which included two LA districts with at least 30% Black voter registration. The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. But in the latest maps, they’re still together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County residents also called in with their opposition to the city of Fresno being split into three different congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Defining community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the cascading effects of preserving two Los Angeles congressional districts with sizable Black populations was breaking up Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners noted the community input they heard from a broad swath of people in Long Beach, including the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457461426159697920?s=20\">LGBTQ+\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://smallpdf.com/file#s=0c5a5a4e-768b-45d2-91b3-d69c04149535\">Latinx communities\u003c/a>, asking to unite the city in one congressional district. Now, Democrats Alan Lowenthal and Nanette Diaz Barragán represent parts of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this week’s maps, Long Beach was split into two congressional districts. While commissioners acknowledged that wasn’t ideal, they said they wanted to be fair to other cities that were divided, including Irvine and other smaller cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If commissioners want to preserve the districts in Los Angeles and keep Long Beach together, however, they may need to cross county lines, something they initially tried to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Long Beach could have a domino effect on the Vietnamese community in Orange County, which, despite residents’ calls to be grouped together as a community of interest, is primarily in a congressional district that divides Westminster and Garden Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another flash point is San Diego, where commissioners on Monday tried to create more Voting Rights Act districts with at least 50% voting-age populations of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-07/state-redistricting\">including one to preserve a Latino voting bloc in the southern part of the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='politics']This week’s discussions did yield wins for some groups. The commission was able to keep the Hmong community in Central California together. Across congressional and legislative maps, most Native American tribes also were kept together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the lines could change, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457401281274777601?s=20\">Equality California, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group, hailed the congressional districts in San Francisco\u003c/a> for keeping the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good draft for reactions,” commission Chair Trena Turner said Monday night after completing the latest round of congressional maps. “We feel better about the reactions.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And with control of Congress up for grabs, a lot of attention in California and across the country is focused on any built-in advantages for Democrats or Republicans in the new U.S. House districts heading into the 2022 election. That focus heightened after Republican wins in the Nov. 2 elections, including Glenn Youngkin flipping the Virginia governor seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Party chair \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1456335589779943438?s=20\">Rusty Hicks warned that Republicans could take the House\u003c/a> by flipping only \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">five seats nationally\u003c/a>, which they could achieve through gerrymandering, and said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1457835888197529601?s=20\">some of the most competitive races are in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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