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"content": "\u003cp>Taylor Sims, vice president of Pittsburg Unified School District’s board of trustees, stood on a stage at Pittsburg High School earlier this month for more than an hour, greeting a procession of students who were being awarded for academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a lot of handshakes,” quipped an onlooking teacher, as pockets of cheers broke out from students reacting to the announcement of names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students who streamed across the stage reflect the growing Black, Latino and Asian population in the outer reaches of the Bay Area, marking a decades-long trend of gentrification pushing families from cities like San Francisco and Oakland to suburbs like Pittsburg and Antioch.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Taylor Sims, vice president, Pittsburg Unified School District Board of Trustees\"]'I think it's a great opportunity for a person of color who's from the community to run and actually be the voice of the community.'[/pullquote]Sitting on the southern shore of Suisun Bay, Pittsburg was anchored for generations by a U.S. Steel mill that’s set to close next year. According to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the vast majority of city residents are people of color. “It’s a very diverse but very much a bubble community,” said Sims, who is Black. “Everybody knows everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sims said the issues Pittsburg faces aren’t limited to that community: Residents across the industrial suburbs and cities of Contra Costa and Solano counties struggle to find affordable housing, good jobs and clean air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Richmond, the refineries, the pollution, the debris, it blows this way to Pittsburg, and so we actually have a really high asthma rate for our students,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bid to get representation in Washington that would be acutely attuned to these challenges, Sims and other local activists pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draw a new congressional district enveloping the region\u003c/a> — a move that would concentrate the voting power of these diverse communities into one seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission agreed, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899971/following-a-tumultuous-redistricting-process-california-unveils-new-electoral-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state’s new congressional map, approved in December\u003c/a>, grouped cities, including Vallejo, Fairfield, Richmond, Pittsburg and part of Antioch — many of which have been located in separate districts — into the new 8th Congressional District. It's the most racially and ethnically diverse district both in the Bay Area and statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg\" alt=\"A map of Congressional District 8\" width=\"800\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the newly drawn Congressional District 8, which includes parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new congressional district is the only one in California in which white, Latino, Black and Asian residents each account for at least 15% of the citizen voting-age population, according to data from the 2019 American Community Survey.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was ecstatic — it was something that we really, really fought for,” said Sims, who worked with the civic engagement coalition Lift Up Contra Costa to advocate for the new district. “I think it’s a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run and actually be the voice of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this shining example of the redistricting commission’s ability to uplift community input has been followed by a textbook case of political machinations. The day the commission approved the new 8th District, John Garamendi, a 77-year-old white congressmember who lives in the Sacramento County town of Walnut Grove, outside the district, announced he would run for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi's previous district had been divided into multiple seats, and unlike in the state Legislature, members of Congress are not required to live in the districts they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immediately you see that juxtaposition of, like, 'Oh, yeah, we have this diverse area, but look who's running,'\" said Kimi Lee, executive director of Bay Rising, another civic engagement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the development in the 8th District is a manifestation of the long-term underrepresentation of residents of color in local government, resulting from the high costs of running for office and a lack of leadership training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 collaborative study by Bay Rising and PolicyLink, a research institute focused on advancing economic and social equity, found that while 60% of Bay Area residents are people of color, they only account for \u003ca href=\"https://bayrising.org/2021/09/22/everyone-wins-when-our-elected-officials-reflect-the-diversity-of-the-region/\">34% of the region's top elected officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a diverse pool of candidates in local government, \"you’re not going to have a diverse pool at the congressional level,” said Lee. “Even though we have this opportunity now with a more diverse district, it will take years to actually get people in the pipeline to be able then to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of local competition is playing to the advantage of Garamendi, who enters the June primary with an enormous edge over his opponents in name recognition, endorsements and cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is just the fact that John Garamendi doesn’t live in this district,” said Danny Espinoza, campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa. “I think in order to build trust with your constituents, to build trust with your community, they want you to feel like you’re part of that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi countered that his decades of experience in Congress and state government will give the district’s needs instant priority in the nation’s Capitol — regardless of where he makes his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living in it is not important,” said Garamendi, who is seeking to extend his nearly 50-year career in public service. “Knowing it and knowing how to represent it — in the district as well as here in Washington — is what’s critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912360 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman standing in a large room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Sims, vice president of Pittsburg Unified School District’s board of trustees, said the new district offers 'a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run.' \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the last decade, the cities of the new 8th District were placed in House districts with whiter and wealthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo, Benicia and Martinez currently sit in a district with Wine Country communities represented by Congressmember Mike Thompson from Napa. Richmond and San Pablo, meanwhile, are paired with the suburbs of Lamorinda and the Tri-Valley in a seat held by Congressmember Mark DeSaulnier of Concord. Fairfield and Suisun City currently are represented by Garamendi, in a district that stretches north to rural Glenn and Yuba counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The communities that are in Antioch, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun [City], Richmond, they all look similar,” said Espinoza. “And they all have similar — I’d say vibes — but really they have similar sets of struggles as far as public transportation, lack of quality jobs in those specific cities, access to affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinoza points to the region’s five oil refineries, all of which will be included in the new district. The facilities and their operations have large impacts on the local economy and public health, but can seem a world away from the tasting rooms of Sonoma or the corporate headquarters of San Ramon.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"redistricting\"]“Part of our thinking was pairing these communities that all share more similar policy issues that one elected could really try to address,” said Kristin Nimmers, who organized community involvement in the line-drawing process with the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first step toward shaping the district\u003c/a> was establishing a “community of interest” among the various cities. Groups like Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) scoured census data and business records and heard resident testimony to find where Black, Latino and Filipino residents were living, shopping and worshiping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks in Richmond would come to Vallejo to go to church. There's a fish shop here in Vallejo — you see people from Richmond coming to purchase fish here,” said Latressa Wilson Alford, vice president of BWOPA’s Solano-Napa chapter. “Then also you see people from Vallejo going to Pittsburg, taking their kids to participate in events in Pittsburg.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at all that information and we began to see that, well, this is the community,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings and recommended district lines then were presented to the state’s redistricting commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which met last year to draw the new districts\u003c/a> that will be in place for the coming decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most states, political maps are approved by the state Legislature, which allows the ruling party to draw districts to the advantage of incumbents. But in California, starting with the 2011 redistricting process, an independent group is tasked with drawing the lines irrespective of current representatives or political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the Bay Area’s congressional map will remain similar to the version approved 10 years ago, the 8th District is markedly different: By grouping together pieces of different districts, the seat drawn by the commission was left with no clear incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Dec. 20, as the commission gave final sign-off to the maps, Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://www.garamendi.org/news/congressman-garamendi-announces-re-election-campaign\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced that he would be “running for re-election”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in the 8th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912361 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with a goatee smiles as he stands outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Espinoza, a campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa, believes it's problematic that Garamendi lives outside the district he's likely to represent. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A similar political shake-up on the heels of redistricting helped launch Garamendi's own political career in 1974. New political lines for that year's election convinced the assemblymember representing Garamendi’s home county of Calaveras to run in a new district — leaving a seat up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was open territory, it had no incumbent,” remembered Pat Johnston, Garamendi’s first campaign manager, in a 2002 interview for the California Oral History Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that election, Douglas Carter, a sitting assemblymember from San Joaquin County, was “district shopping” and made a run for the seat. But Garamendi prevailed, appealing to rural voters with his rancher roots, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bJq3lTLxEE\">which he would tout throughout his career\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brochure when you opened it had a picture of John on a cattle ranch and it said, ‘Born on a cattle ranch, schooled at Harvard,’” Johnson recalled. “The yin and the yang. The smart cowboy, not too big for his britches but a lot bigger talent than you might expect to send to Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victory set in motion a career that has included 16 years in the state Legislature, stints as lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner (twice), and more than a decade in Congress.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Danny Espinoza, campaign director, Lift Up Contra Costa\"]'The communities that are in Antioch, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun [City], Richmond, they all look similar. And they all have similar — I'd say vibes — but really they have similar sets of struggles.'[/pullquote]Garamendi first won election to the House in a 2009 special election in a district that stretched from Livermore to just outside his home in the Sacramento Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When district lines change, Garamendi said he finds ways to use his experience and seniority on behalf of a new set of constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last redistricting [in 2011], I was sent up the river, sent to one of the largest agricultural districts in the entire nation,” he said. “So what do you do? You reach out to the community, you understand the issues of the community you work [in], in that case with agriculture, individual farmers and organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’ll do the same [now] … and then my job is to represent those and to make sure to address the issues in the community,” he added, pointing to the tens of millions of dollars for Bay Area schools and roads in the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, both of which he voted for last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his agenda for the new district, Garamendi said he already has a plan to bring jobs to Vallejo by making the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard a hub for the repair of U.S. Navy combat vessels. Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/state-and-regional/john-garamendi-announces-13-million-investment-at-mare-island-dry-dock/article_dab94aaf-47b0-54b1-94e6-7a44e3983925.html\">traveled there last month\u003c/a> to tout the private investments in the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s about 2,000 jobs if that comes together, and there’s every reason that it would come together because as chairman of the [House Armed Services] Readiness Subcommittee, I know that the U.S. Navy does not have adequate shipyards on the West Coast to take care of its fleets of ships,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors of Antioch, Fairfield and Vallejo, along with dozens of local elected officials across the district, have endorsed Garamendi, who enters the primary with $1.4 million in his campaign account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi also will have the backing of the state's Democratic Party, which granted him a fast-tracked endorsement as an incumbent, despite the fact that just 20% of registered voters in the new district are Garamendi’s current constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Garamendi is an incumbent candidate for Congress. Just like Josh Harder,” said Shery Yang, party communications director, in an email, pointing to another Democrat running as an incumbent in a district with mostly new voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912362 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a headscarf sits at an outdoor cafe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Sudduth of El Sobrante, a member of the West County Wastewater District Board of Directors, is one of five District 8 candidates on the June primary ballot. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some, the anticipated marriage of the 8th District’s newly empowered communities and Garamendi’s Capitol connections is a union worth celebrating, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the diversity and the breakup [of the new district], I am thrilled for the people that advocated and did the hard work,” said K. Patrice Williams, a Fairfield resident and CEO of the community outreach firm Empower Solano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called this moment “a pause” for candidates of color in the district “to get ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is ready to run an effective campaign where they can be elected?” asked Williams. “I think that happens in a moment in time. And it will probably be soon, but I don’t think that it’s this term. This term I am very satisfied with John Garamendi being in that seat and representing all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jovanka Beckles, an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District board director, said Garamendi’s early announcement to run deterred the entry of high-profile candidates that an open seat in the Bay Area, particularly one with no term limits, typically invites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are intimidated by the fact that, you know, he’s claiming to be an incumbent,” said Beckles, a former Richmond City Council member. “We know that it is a lot more challenging running against an incumbent as opposed to running in an open seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi’s strongest challenge was expected to come from Richmond City Councilmember Demnlus Johnson who, at 25, finished as the top vote-getter in the 2018 citywide race. In February, Johnson launched a campaign for the House seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdMzxd1HRU&t=3s\">with a splashy video\u003c/a> and the hashtag #IAmDistrict8. But election officials in Contra Costa and Solano counties said Johnson failed to submit the 40 voter signatures that are required for his name to appear on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Democrats Christopher Riley, a high school math teacher in the East Bay; \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663957/east-bay-assembly-candidate-asks-who-gets-to-define-experience\">Cheryl Sudduth\u003c/a>, a director at the West County Wastewater District; Edwin Rutsch, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660708/assembly-candidates-get-radical-in-empathy-workshop\">Center for Building a Culture of Empathy\u003c/a>; and Rudy Recile, a Republican small business owner, on the June primary ballot with Garamendi. The top two finishers regardless of party will face off in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates facing Garamendi — none of whom has anywhere near the resources or name recognition he has — are likely to convey a similar message: that his years of experience in Congress can’t match their lived experience in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When that Chevron refinery goes off, I shelter in place, too. When I talk about needing a hospital in West County, it’s because I live there,” said Sudduth, who lives in El Sobrante. “You mean to tell me that out of 760,000 people in this district that no one is capable of representing us?”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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According to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the vast majority of city residents are people of color. “It’s a very diverse but very much a bubble community,” said Sims, who is Black. “Everybody knows everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sims said the issues Pittsburg faces aren’t limited to that community: Residents across the industrial suburbs and cities of Contra Costa and Solano counties struggle to find affordable housing, good jobs and clean air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Richmond, the refineries, the pollution, the debris, it blows this way to Pittsburg, and so we actually have a really high asthma rate for our students,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bid to get representation in Washington that would be acutely attuned to these challenges, Sims and other local activists pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draw a new congressional district enveloping the region\u003c/a> — a move that would concentrate the voting power of these diverse communities into one seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission agreed, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899971/following-a-tumultuous-redistricting-process-california-unveils-new-electoral-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state’s new congressional map, approved in December\u003c/a>, grouped cities, including Vallejo, Fairfield, Richmond, Pittsburg and part of Antioch — many of which have been located in separate districts — into the new 8th Congressional District. It's the most racially and ethnically diverse district both in the Bay Area and statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg\" alt=\"A map of Congressional District 8\" width=\"800\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the newly drawn Congressional District 8, which includes parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new congressional district is the only one in California in which white, Latino, Black and Asian residents each account for at least 15% of the citizen voting-age population, according to data from the 2019 American Community Survey.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was ecstatic — it was something that we really, really fought for,” said Sims, who worked with the civic engagement coalition Lift Up Contra Costa to advocate for the new district. “I think it’s a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run and actually be the voice of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this shining example of the redistricting commission’s ability to uplift community input has been followed by a textbook case of political machinations. The day the commission approved the new 8th District, John Garamendi, a 77-year-old white congressmember who lives in the Sacramento County town of Walnut Grove, outside the district, announced he would run for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi's previous district had been divided into multiple seats, and unlike in the state Legislature, members of Congress are not required to live in the districts they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immediately you see that juxtaposition of, like, 'Oh, yeah, we have this diverse area, but look who's running,'\" said Kimi Lee, executive director of Bay Rising, another civic engagement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the development in the 8th District is a manifestation of the long-term underrepresentation of residents of color in local government, resulting from the high costs of running for office and a lack of leadership training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 collaborative study by Bay Rising and PolicyLink, a research institute focused on advancing economic and social equity, found that while 60% of Bay Area residents are people of color, they only account for \u003ca href=\"https://bayrising.org/2021/09/22/everyone-wins-when-our-elected-officials-reflect-the-diversity-of-the-region/\">34% of the region's top elected officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a diverse pool of candidates in local government, \"you’re not going to have a diverse pool at the congressional level,” said Lee. “Even though we have this opportunity now with a more diverse district, it will take years to actually get people in the pipeline to be able then to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of local competition is playing to the advantage of Garamendi, who enters the June primary with an enormous edge over his opponents in name recognition, endorsements and cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is just the fact that John Garamendi doesn’t live in this district,” said Danny Espinoza, campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa. “I think in order to build trust with your constituents, to build trust with your community, they want you to feel like you’re part of that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi countered that his decades of experience in Congress and state government will give the district’s needs instant priority in the nation’s Capitol — regardless of where he makes his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living in it is not important,” said Garamendi, who is seeking to extend his nearly 50-year career in public service. “Knowing it and knowing how to represent it — in the district as well as here in Washington — is what’s critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912360 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman standing in a large room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Sims, vice president of Pittsburg Unified School District’s board of trustees, said the new district offers 'a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run.' \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the last decade, the cities of the new 8th District were placed in House districts with whiter and wealthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo, Benicia and Martinez currently sit in a district with Wine Country communities represented by Congressmember Mike Thompson from Napa. Richmond and San Pablo, meanwhile, are paired with the suburbs of Lamorinda and the Tri-Valley in a seat held by Congressmember Mark DeSaulnier of Concord. Fairfield and Suisun City currently are represented by Garamendi, in a district that stretches north to rural Glenn and Yuba counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The communities that are in Antioch, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun [City], Richmond, they all look similar,” said Espinoza. “And they all have similar — I’d say vibes — but really they have similar sets of struggles as far as public transportation, lack of quality jobs in those specific cities, access to affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinoza points to the region’s five oil refineries, all of which will be included in the new district. The facilities and their operations have large impacts on the local economy and public health, but can seem a world away from the tasting rooms of Sonoma or the corporate headquarters of San Ramon.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Part of our thinking was pairing these communities that all share more similar policy issues that one elected could really try to address,” said Kristin Nimmers, who organized community involvement in the line-drawing process with the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first step toward shaping the district\u003c/a> was establishing a “community of interest” among the various cities. Groups like Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) scoured census data and business records and heard resident testimony to find where Black, Latino and Filipino residents were living, shopping and worshiping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks in Richmond would come to Vallejo to go to church. There's a fish shop here in Vallejo — you see people from Richmond coming to purchase fish here,” said Latressa Wilson Alford, vice president of BWOPA’s Solano-Napa chapter. “Then also you see people from Vallejo going to Pittsburg, taking their kids to participate in events in Pittsburg.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at all that information and we began to see that, well, this is the community,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings and recommended district lines then were presented to the state’s redistricting commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which met last year to draw the new districts\u003c/a> that will be in place for the coming decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most states, political maps are approved by the state Legislature, which allows the ruling party to draw districts to the advantage of incumbents. But in California, starting with the 2011 redistricting process, an independent group is tasked with drawing the lines irrespective of current representatives or political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the Bay Area’s congressional map will remain similar to the version approved 10 years ago, the 8th District is markedly different: By grouping together pieces of different districts, the seat drawn by the commission was left with no clear incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Dec. 20, as the commission gave final sign-off to the maps, Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://www.garamendi.org/news/congressman-garamendi-announces-re-election-campaign\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced that he would be “running for re-election”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in the 8th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912361 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with a goatee smiles as he stands outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Espinoza, a campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa, believes it's problematic that Garamendi lives outside the district he's likely to represent. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A similar political shake-up on the heels of redistricting helped launch Garamendi's own political career in 1974. New political lines for that year's election convinced the assemblymember representing Garamendi’s home county of Calaveras to run in a new district — leaving a seat up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was open territory, it had no incumbent,” remembered Pat Johnston, Garamendi’s first campaign manager, in a 2002 interview for the California Oral History Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that election, Douglas Carter, a sitting assemblymember from San Joaquin County, was “district shopping” and made a run for the seat. But Garamendi prevailed, appealing to rural voters with his rancher roots, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bJq3lTLxEE\">which he would tout throughout his career\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brochure when you opened it had a picture of John on a cattle ranch and it said, ‘Born on a cattle ranch, schooled at Harvard,’” Johnson recalled. “The yin and the yang. The smart cowboy, not too big for his britches but a lot bigger talent than you might expect to send to Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victory set in motion a career that has included 16 years in the state Legislature, stints as lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner (twice), and more than a decade in Congress.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Garamendi first won election to the House in a 2009 special election in a district that stretched from Livermore to just outside his home in the Sacramento Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When district lines change, Garamendi said he finds ways to use his experience and seniority on behalf of a new set of constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last redistricting [in 2011], I was sent up the river, sent to one of the largest agricultural districts in the entire nation,” he said. “So what do you do? You reach out to the community, you understand the issues of the community you work [in], in that case with agriculture, individual farmers and organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’ll do the same [now] … and then my job is to represent those and to make sure to address the issues in the community,” he added, pointing to the tens of millions of dollars for Bay Area schools and roads in the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, both of which he voted for last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his agenda for the new district, Garamendi said he already has a plan to bring jobs to Vallejo by making the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard a hub for the repair of U.S. Navy combat vessels. Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/state-and-regional/john-garamendi-announces-13-million-investment-at-mare-island-dry-dock/article_dab94aaf-47b0-54b1-94e6-7a44e3983925.html\">traveled there last month\u003c/a> to tout the private investments in the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s about 2,000 jobs if that comes together, and there’s every reason that it would come together because as chairman of the [House Armed Services] Readiness Subcommittee, I know that the U.S. Navy does not have adequate shipyards on the West Coast to take care of its fleets of ships,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors of Antioch, Fairfield and Vallejo, along with dozens of local elected officials across the district, have endorsed Garamendi, who enters the primary with $1.4 million in his campaign account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi also will have the backing of the state's Democratic Party, which granted him a fast-tracked endorsement as an incumbent, despite the fact that just 20% of registered voters in the new district are Garamendi’s current constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Garamendi is an incumbent candidate for Congress. Just like Josh Harder,” said Shery Yang, party communications director, in an email, pointing to another Democrat running as an incumbent in a district with mostly new voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912362 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a headscarf sits at an outdoor cafe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Sudduth of El Sobrante, a member of the West County Wastewater District Board of Directors, is one of five District 8 candidates on the June primary ballot. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some, the anticipated marriage of the 8th District’s newly empowered communities and Garamendi’s Capitol connections is a union worth celebrating, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the diversity and the breakup [of the new district], I am thrilled for the people that advocated and did the hard work,” said K. Patrice Williams, a Fairfield resident and CEO of the community outreach firm Empower Solano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called this moment “a pause” for candidates of color in the district “to get ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is ready to run an effective campaign where they can be elected?” asked Williams. “I think that happens in a moment in time. And it will probably be soon, but I don’t think that it’s this term. This term I am very satisfied with John Garamendi being in that seat and representing all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jovanka Beckles, an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District board director, said Garamendi’s early announcement to run deterred the entry of high-profile candidates that an open seat in the Bay Area, particularly one with no term limits, typically invites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are intimidated by the fact that, you know, he’s claiming to be an incumbent,” said Beckles, a former Richmond City Council member. “We know that it is a lot more challenging running against an incumbent as opposed to running in an open seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi’s strongest challenge was expected to come from Richmond City Councilmember Demnlus Johnson who, at 25, finished as the top vote-getter in the 2018 citywide race. In February, Johnson launched a campaign for the House seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdMzxd1HRU&t=3s\">with a splashy video\u003c/a> and the hashtag #IAmDistrict8. But election officials in Contra Costa and Solano counties said Johnson failed to submit the 40 voter signatures that are required for his name to appear on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Democrats Christopher Riley, a high school math teacher in the East Bay; \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663957/east-bay-assembly-candidate-asks-who-gets-to-define-experience\">Cheryl Sudduth\u003c/a>, a director at the West County Wastewater District; Edwin Rutsch, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660708/assembly-candidates-get-radical-in-empathy-workshop\">Center for Building a Culture of Empathy\u003c/a>; and Rudy Recile, a Republican small business owner, on the June primary ballot with Garamendi. The top two finishers regardless of party will face off in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates facing Garamendi — none of whom has anywhere near the resources or name recognition he has — are likely to convey a similar message: that his years of experience in Congress can’t match their lived experience in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When that Chevron refinery goes off, I shelter in place, too. When I talk about needing a hospital in West County, it’s because I live there,” said Sudduth, who lives in El Sobrante. “You mean to tell me that out of 760,000 people in this district that no one is capable of representing us?”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Redistricting is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to redraw a city’s political map. It’s an important yet arcane process that should ultimately lead to fair, equitable representation in local government — and it’s really hard to do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, the process hasn’t just been hard; it’s been chaotic, confusing, heated — and as Mission Local columnist Joe Eskenazi writes, “indefensible.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ultimately, the commission did not meet its legal deadline of April 15 to complete its maps, leaving the future of the city’s district lines up in the air.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest: \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EskSF\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joe Eskenazi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Mission Local editor and columnist\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4902301340&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3EneTp4\">Episode transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recommended reading:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/task-force-rejects-its-final-map-will-work-past-legal-april-15-deadline/\">\u003cb>Task force rejects its final map, will work past legal April 15 deadline\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, Mission Local\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/chair-of-redistricting-task-force-told-others-he-felt-mayors-pressure-in-voting-on-maps/\">\u003cb>Chair of Redistricting Task Force told others he felt mayor’s pressure in voting on maps\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, Mission Local\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/redistricting-has-been-a-debacle-and-a-disgrace-and-we-arent-nearly-done/\">\u003cstrong>Redistricting has been a debacle — and we aren’t nearly done\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Mission Local\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv class=\"entry-subhead\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"entry-meta\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The changes enshrined by this task force will take away, or solidify, voting power for communities across the city for the next decade.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Chema Hernández Gil, member, SF Redistricting Task Force\"]‘This final draft map diminishes the ability of communities of interest, made up of some of our most vulnerable populations, that should be included in a single district for purposes of their fair and effective representation.’[/pullquote]But after a nearly 10-hour meeting, including public comment from some 150 concerned residents, the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/public-body/2020-census-redistricting-task-force\">San Francisco Redistricting Task Force\u003c/a> late Wednesday night narrowly rejected what was supposed to be its final version of the map, amid lingering equity issues and accusations that it unfairly advantaged the city’s Democratic moderates, to the detriment of progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This final draft map diminishes the ability of communities of interest, made up of some of our most vulnerable populations, that should be included in a single district for purposes of their fair and effective representation,” task force member Chema Hernández Gil said during the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hybrid in-person/virtual meeting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 5-4 vote to scrap the draft means the commission will fail to meet the city’s binding Thursday deadline to submit a final version, and could now face legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force plans to hold a series of meetings in the coming weeks to tweak the draft map in an attempt to bring it more in line with the demands of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DraftFinalMap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DraftFinalMap.jpg\" alt=\"A voting district map of San Francisco.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DraftFinalMap.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DraftFinalMap-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DraftFinalMap-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DraftFinalMap-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft final map of new voting districts in San Francisco that members of the Redistricting Task Force rejected on April 13. \u003ccite>(SF Redistricting Task Force)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, some task force members warned that not approving a map by the deadline would set up the possibility of a legal challenge and the prospect that a judge could ultimately be appointed to produce the final version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like it’s almost torture to go on at the pace we’ve been going on,” Ditka Reiner, the vice chair of the task force, said. “I’d like to finish this map and meet the deadline. 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For instance, bringing the wealthy Sea Cliff neighborhood into the Richmond’s voting lines could make that district more conservative and potentially diminish the influence of Asian voices, while moving a slice of Potrero Hill out of District 10 would split up Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TheLeagueSF/status/1513959705047023616\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s lengthy public-comment period, Karen Pierce, who identified herself as a native San Franciscan, urged the task force to reject the map before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a history now that the current District 10 provides an opportunity for the Black community voice to be heard in this city,” she said. “Switching this up, it doesn’t matter who or what ethnic group is put in here to dilute her voice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California Democrats appear to have come away with the advantage in a recasting of the state’s congressional districts, with boundaries that could strengthen their hold on the delegation and play into the fight for U.S. House control next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the new maps left a string of competitive seats that make California something of an outlier in a nation of deeply divided politics: Even though it’s a Democratic stronghold, the new maps suggest Republicans might pull off surprises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are defending a fragile eight-seat House majority in a midterm election, when the party that controls the White House typically loses seats in Congress and President Joe Biden’s approval ratings have been shaky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting fights have been playing out across the country, as Democrats and Republicans look for an edge in future elections. The Justice Department recently sued Texas over its new redistricting maps, saying the plans discriminate against Latinos and other minority voters.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Gavin Newsom in his 2018 election, and 45 of the districts tilted to then-candidate Biden in the 2020 presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an encouraging sign for Democrats, who hope to gain ground in California in 2022 after surrendering four House seats to Republicans in 2020. Democrats hold 42 of the state’s 53-seat House delegation — the largest delegation by far in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised lines were endorsed Monday by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which was tasked with drawing new districts to account for shifts in population, a requirement that happens once a decade. Each district must represent 760,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican National Committee spokeswoman Hallie Balch said the panel had created “cakewalk districts” for most Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s redistricting committee has entirely lost track of the people who reside in the districts they have drawn,” Balch said in a statement. “These lines are a disappointing end to a long-fought battle for representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican who saw his district north of Los Angeles stripped of the Republican-rich community of Simi Valley, said, “The commission has shown they were not acting independently when they drew all the Democratic incumbents into safer seats while making five out of the 11 Republican districts more vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know we will win in this new district regardless,” Garcia wrote on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First-term Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs announced Tuesday that she will seek re-election in the new 51st District next year, while Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican, said he’ll seek election in the new 48th District.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 51st District in San Diego County includes portions of both representatives’ current districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuffling of the district borders already has resulted in changes in the delegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-serving California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress, announced Monday she will not seek reelection in her Los Angeles-area district. The decision by the 80-year-old Democratic congresswoman came as her district was largely dismantled by the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifting district boundary lines appear to have played a role in other House departures. Among them: Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who was one of former President Donald Trump’s most ardent loyalists in Congress, is leaving the House at the end of this year to join Trump’s fledgling media company, and Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal, who represents a district anchored in Long Beach, south of Los Angeles, announced he would retire at the end of his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ripple effects continue, and some candidates in key races could shift to nearby districts in search of a more favorable political climate. Republican U.S. Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel, who captured Democratic seats all or partly in Orange County in 2020, have yet to announce their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the shifting lines had little effect on the state’s marquee names in the House. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s overwhelmingly Democratic district anchored in San Francisco remained overwhelmingly Democratic. 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. Republicans make up less than a quarter of registered voters, and have lost support in what used to be Republican-leaning suburbs, said Mitchell, of Redistricting Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new lines will have a “chilling effect” on Republican hopes of gaining ground in the Legislature, Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new lines also recognize the state’s increasing diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said Latinos, the largest racial or ethnic group in California, now represent majorities in 16 House districts. Three districts group together areas with large Asian populations, and two do the same for communities with large numbers of Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The borders of Fresno area districts represented by Democratic Rep. Jim Costa and Republican Reps. David Valadao and Devin Nunes shifted significantly. Costa on Tuesday announced he would run in the new 21st District, anchored in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press Writer Don Thompson in Sacramento contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This report contains a correction.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s independent redistricting commission is taking a lot of heat for the congressional and legislative maps it’s drawing to beat a Dec. 27 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the at-times confusing product that’s under the microscope. It’s also the commission’s messy process — with accusations of secrecy, complaints about public input and now questions about whether taxpayers are getting their money’s worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is funding the commission with $20.3 million — about twice as much as the previous independent commission received.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Steven Maviglio, Sacramento-based Democratic consultant\"]'Everyone understands that redistricting is an ugly process no matter who does it, but what I'm seeing here is amateur sausage-making.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Maviglio — a Sacramento-based Democratic consultant who has been one of the commission’s most outspoken critics and opposed its creation to begin with — said it has been plagued with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/is-the-california-citizens-redistricting-commission-spending-out-of-control/\">cost overrun after overrun\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone understands that redistricting is an ugly process no matter who does it, but what I’m seeing here is amateur sausage-making,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Andersen, chair of the commission this week, said that the panel has demonstrated a commitment to an open process with extensive public outreach — one that took place under “extraordinary circumstances,” including the pandemic and an unprecedented delay in the 2020 census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the current commission’s bigger budget is that it started four months earlier than the previous commission, and its work has been extended by the census delay. Having to conduct public outreach virtually over the summer due to COVID-19 also drove up costs — audio and video, translation, captions and interpretation, said Fredy Ceja, director of communications for the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people of California entrusted the redistricting process to a group of their peers without a blueprint for how to do so,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/jane_andersen\">Andersen, a Republican from Berkeley\u003c/a> who is a civil engineer, said in a statement issued Tuesday night. “The Commission created and executed a robust community input process, which may not be perfect, but was led with integrity and transparency in hopes that it will result in fairer maps for the people of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Rising costs for redistricting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When voters approved the 2008 ballot measure that created the commission and took once-a-decade redistricting away from the Legislature,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the initiative stated that\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2304&context=ca_ballot_props#page=21\">the cost would be set\u003c/a> at the amount of the prior redistricting, plus inflation.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>After the 2000 census, that was about $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, the first independent commission that drew districts after the 2010 census \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2012/06/handouts_20120605_crc_costreport.pdf\">spent $10.4 million in state money\u003c/a>, plus $3.3 million donated by a private foundation for public outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $20 million state appropriation for the current commission, it had received $8.4 million as of July 1, according to budget documents provided to CalMatters. The commission wasn’t able to give an updated spending total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money goes to pay staff, rent venues, produce audio and video and provide translations. There are also costs for public outreach: printing marketing materials, purchasing ads online and other costs to educate the public about redistricting and seek its involvement.[aside postID=\"news_11898329,news_11895797,news_11892339,news_11895983\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also includes $1.2 million for its \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/371/attachments/original/1636997766/SW_Lit_Contract_10_27_2021tt_AVP.pdf?1636997766\">legal counsel\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/371/attachments/original/1636997766/SW_Lit_Contract_10_27_2021tt_AVP.pdf?1636997766\">Under the contract \u003c/a>with Strumwasser and Woocher LLC, the senior counsel and partners are paid $575 an hour and associates $375 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the commission has budgeted $1.6 million for its mapping consultants: \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/commission_announces_line_drawing_contract\">HaystaqDNA and Q2 Data & Research\u003c/a> LLC. The previous commission paid $592,000 to Q2 for line drawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature allocated money separately to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.statewidedatabase.org/redistricting2021/\">Statewide Database\u003c/a> to create a mapping tool. And the state auditor’s office received a $5.2 million appropriation to select and empanel the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners, themselves, get a stipend — $378 per day when attending meetings or doing commission work. The commission voted to allow those commissioners who wanted to meet in person to do so, and their travel is reimbursed. The others participate via Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though some commissioners have been noticeably absent from meetings, there are no attendance requirements. Republican political strategist Matt Rexroad said that while he understands that the commission members might be juggling multiple jobs, they need to hear public input to make decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you value the public input, you show up to listen to it,” he said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-four-key-questions/\">California redistricting: Four key questions\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The commission reaches a key milestone when it releases its preliminary congressional and legislative maps for public comment. But many changes are likely before final districts are adopted in late December for the 2022 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has been meeting six days a week most weeks since mid-November and plans to \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">continue on that schedule until adopting final maps\u003c/a> late this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-four-key-questions/\">approved preliminary maps Nov. 10\u003c/a>, but it’s already blowing some of them up. It wrapped up new versions of state Assembly maps, but not until about 12:40 a.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To balance the various criteria the commission has to weigh, some of the districts ended up oddly shaped. There were long “necks” within districts, for example, in San Pedro to separate the ports, as requested by community input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners, who started reviewing congressional districts Tuesday, asserted that there isn’t a great way to evaluate one community of interest’s input over another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1468277079271612418\">Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a San Diego Democrat, called the line drawing “a mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why? The lack of foresight to start with previous maps also drawn by an independent commission,” she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1468277079271612418\">tweeted Tuesday\u003c/a>. She’s so fed up that she says legislators, who know their districts, should have a bigger say in the process — although voters approved the commission in 2008 precisely to decrease legislator influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That initiative should be revisited, Gonzalez says: “There should be a better way to avoid political gerrymandering, while giving a true voice to the community and its representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, a government reform group that pushed for independent redistricting, said the messiness is better than the alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democracy done in public is going to be messy. These are 14 folks with the best interests of California in mind, trying to draw a huge number of districts on a public livestream,” he told CalMatters via email. “They can’t take things into a back room for a couple weeks to work on it, make some mistakes, and then bring back a more polished product. We’re seeing everything — and that includes the good and the bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Efficiency and transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sarasadhwani/status/1468248307692707847?s=20\">Commissioner Sara Sadhwani defended\u003c/a> the new Assembly map, which she said was “based on compromise and consensus.” But in a Tuesday tweet, she acknowledged that “not everybody will be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, it’s more than unhappiness with the maps themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 30, five Republican voters filed \u003ca href=\"https://6f45g2d4rjnipqbg27qcdg1a-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20211130_Writ_Petition_Final_FILED.pdf\">an emergency petition\u003c/a> with California’s Supreme Court to order the commission to disclose its analysis on past racially polarized voting, which it uses to draw districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition, filed by Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican National Committee member, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-02/legal-challenge-to-california-redistricting-effort-seeks-document-disclosure-new-advisers\">says that any private conversations between commissioners and interest groups\u003c/a> should be made public. Finally, the complaint urges that the commission’s legal counsel be fired because it has also worked for legislative leaders and the campaigns of former President Barack Obama.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause\"]'Democracy done in public is going to be messy. ... We're seeing everything — and that includes the good and the bad.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its response, filed with the court Tuesday, the commission \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/378/attachments/original/1638913667/211207_Preliminary_Opposition_Final_%281%29.pdf?1638913667\">categorically denied the allegations and gave no indication\u003c/a> it will comply with any of the demands in the petition. The commission’s lawyers said it had posted maps showing the results of the racial voting analysis, and said commissioners have not been holding any secret or illegal meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition is lacking in merit and, at worst, “represents a politically motivated attempt to obstruct the Commission’s efforts by denying it the advice of its chosen counsel in these final crucial days of the redistricting process,” added the response filed by the commission’s counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission is already expecting to be dragged into court again, even after it submits its final maps to the secretary of state. Its budget includes $4.3 million for litigation following redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous commission \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2012/06/handouts_20120605_crc_costreport.pdf\">spent about $2 million on legal costs\u003c/a> after the 2011 redistricting.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The congressional and state Senate plans were challenged in state and federal court, and the composition of the commission itself was challenged in state court, according to \u003ca href=\"https://redistricting.lls.edu/state/california/?cycle=2020&level=Congress&startdate=\">research from Loyola Law School\u003c/a>. None of the challenges was successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the GOP voter petition, redistricting experts and close observers have complained about the public comment process, including a lack of clarity on specific timing, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1468139031611392001?s=20\">files not posted early enough\u003c/a> for the public to review and comment, or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1467644501078380548?s=20\">file formats that were hard to read\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the process hasn’t been perfect, James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said the independent commission does more to serve voters than self-interested politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This process has given Californians like the ones our coalition engages — Black immigrants, refugees, formerly incarcerated people, houseless folks who are traditionally left out of processes like this — the opportunity to engage the commission and have their voices heard,” he said. “We would not trade this process for another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Woodson noted some ways the process could be improved, including more time for commissioners to be trained on California’s laws and diverse makeup. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Maviglio — a Sacramento-based Democratic consultant who has been one of the commission’s most outspoken critics and opposed its creation to begin with — said it has been plagued with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/is-the-california-citizens-redistricting-commission-spending-out-of-control/\">cost overrun after overrun\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone understands that redistricting is an ugly process no matter who does it, but what I’m seeing here is amateur sausage-making,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Andersen, chair of the commission this week, said that the panel has demonstrated a commitment to an open process with extensive public outreach — one that took place under “extraordinary circumstances,” including the pandemic and an unprecedented delay in the 2020 census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the current commission’s bigger budget is that it started four months earlier than the previous commission, and its work has been extended by the census delay. Having to conduct public outreach virtually over the summer due to COVID-19 also drove up costs — audio and video, translation, captions and interpretation, said Fredy Ceja, director of communications for the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people of California entrusted the redistricting process to a group of their peers without a blueprint for how to do so,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/jane_andersen\">Andersen, a Republican from Berkeley\u003c/a> who is a civil engineer, said in a statement issued Tuesday night. “The Commission created and executed a robust community input process, which may not be perfect, but was led with integrity and transparency in hopes that it will result in fairer maps for the people of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Rising costs for redistricting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When voters approved the 2008 ballot measure that created the commission and took once-a-decade redistricting away from the Legislature,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the initiative stated that\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2304&context=ca_ballot_props#page=21\">the cost would be set\u003c/a> at the amount of the prior redistricting, plus inflation.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>After the 2000 census, that was about $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, the first independent commission that drew districts after the 2010 census \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2012/06/handouts_20120605_crc_costreport.pdf\">spent $10.4 million in state money\u003c/a>, plus $3.3 million donated by a private foundation for public outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $20 million state appropriation for the current commission, it had received $8.4 million as of July 1, according to budget documents provided to CalMatters. The commission wasn’t able to give an updated spending total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money goes to pay staff, rent venues, produce audio and video and provide translations. There are also costs for public outreach: printing marketing materials, purchasing ads online and other costs to educate the public about redistricting and seek its involvement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also includes $1.2 million for its \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/371/attachments/original/1636997766/SW_Lit_Contract_10_27_2021tt_AVP.pdf?1636997766\">legal counsel\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/371/attachments/original/1636997766/SW_Lit_Contract_10_27_2021tt_AVP.pdf?1636997766\">Under the contract \u003c/a>with Strumwasser and Woocher LLC, the senior counsel and partners are paid $575 an hour and associates $375 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the commission has budgeted $1.6 million for its mapping consultants: \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/commission_announces_line_drawing_contract\">HaystaqDNA and Q2 Data & Research\u003c/a> LLC. The previous commission paid $592,000 to Q2 for line drawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature allocated money separately to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.statewidedatabase.org/redistricting2021/\">Statewide Database\u003c/a> to create a mapping tool. And the state auditor’s office received a $5.2 million appropriation to select and empanel the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners, themselves, get a stipend — $378 per day when attending meetings or doing commission work. The commission voted to allow those commissioners who wanted to meet in person to do so, and their travel is reimbursed. The others participate via Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though some commissioners have been noticeably absent from meetings, there are no attendance requirements. Republican political strategist Matt Rexroad said that while he understands that the commission members might be juggling multiple jobs, they need to hear public input to make decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you value the public input, you show up to listen to it,” he said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-four-key-questions/\">California redistricting: Four key questions\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The commission reaches a key milestone when it releases its preliminary congressional and legislative maps for public comment. But many changes are likely before final districts are adopted in late December for the 2022 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has been meeting six days a week most weeks since mid-November and plans to \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">continue on that schedule until adopting final maps\u003c/a> late this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-four-key-questions/\">approved preliminary maps Nov. 10\u003c/a>, but it’s already blowing some of them up. It wrapped up new versions of state Assembly maps, but not until about 12:40 a.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To balance the various criteria the commission has to weigh, some of the districts ended up oddly shaped. There were long “necks” within districts, for example, in San Pedro to separate the ports, as requested by community input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners, who started reviewing congressional districts Tuesday, asserted that there isn’t a great way to evaluate one community of interest’s input over another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1468277079271612418\">Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a San Diego Democrat, called the line drawing “a mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why? The lack of foresight to start with previous maps also drawn by an independent commission,” she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1468277079271612418\">tweeted Tuesday\u003c/a>. She’s so fed up that she says legislators, who know their districts, should have a bigger say in the process — although voters approved the commission in 2008 precisely to decrease legislator influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That initiative should be revisited, Gonzalez says: “There should be a better way to avoid political gerrymandering, while giving a true voice to the community and its representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, a government reform group that pushed for independent redistricting, said the messiness is better than the alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democracy done in public is going to be messy. These are 14 folks with the best interests of California in mind, trying to draw a huge number of districts on a public livestream,” he told CalMatters via email. “They can’t take things into a back room for a couple weeks to work on it, make some mistakes, and then bring back a more polished product. We’re seeing everything — and that includes the good and the bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Efficiency and transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sarasadhwani/status/1468248307692707847?s=20\">Commissioner Sara Sadhwani defended\u003c/a> the new Assembly map, which she said was “based on compromise and consensus.” But in a Tuesday tweet, she acknowledged that “not everybody will be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, it’s more than unhappiness with the maps themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 30, five Republican voters filed \u003ca href=\"https://6f45g2d4rjnipqbg27qcdg1a-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20211130_Writ_Petition_Final_FILED.pdf\">an emergency petition\u003c/a> with California’s Supreme Court to order the commission to disclose its analysis on past racially polarized voting, which it uses to draw districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition, filed by Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican National Committee member, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-02/legal-challenge-to-california-redistricting-effort-seeks-document-disclosure-new-advisers\">says that any private conversations between commissioners and interest groups\u003c/a> should be made public. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/12/cuanto-cambiara-el-poder-politico-con-la-redistribucion-de-distritos-en-california/\">Leer en español.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting won’t change that California is a blue state. But it could decide just how blue it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second time, the once-in-a-decade process of drawing the state’s new congressional and legislative districts is in the hands of an independent commission, officially without concern about the impact on the partisan balance of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in reality, party politics shadows the entire process — and the California Citizens Redistricting Commission is getting plenty of outside pressure as it \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1637532173/Agenda_11.30.21_-_12.4.21_and_12.6.21_%28DRAFT_-5%29.pdf?1637532173\">meets this week to cull through public comment\u003c/a> on its preliminary maps and consider changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how the commission draws the final districts will nonetheless affect partisan dynamics, including \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/416351-dems-gain-veto-proof-supermajority-in-california-state-senate-after\">whether Democrats are able to keep the supermajority in the Legislature they won in 2018\u003c/a> and retained in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading into the 2022 elections, Democrats have a stranglehold on power in California: \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers\">fifty-nine of 80 seats in the state Assembly\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators\">31 of 40 in the state Senate\u003c/a>, plus 42 of 53 in the U.S. House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While slightly more competitive, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/race-and-partisan-leanings-in-californias-draft-redistricting-maps/\">preliminary districts aren’t likely to change\u003c/a> those numbers much, according to one study. Democrats are likely to keep 40 of 52 House seats, 62 Assembly seats and 31 Senate seats, says the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC, analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those party breakdowns could shift in the final districts that the \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">commission will be working on the next several weeks\u003c/a> before adopting them just before Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission, said that when seeking public comment, the commission didn’t ask for political affiliation. And he noted that the state constitution says that “districts may not be drawn for the purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent, political candidate, or political party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State Senate and Assembly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democrats have a supermajority in the state Legislature, and, under the draft maps, that doesn’t appear likely to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=assembly&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-assembly&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis, which uses data from the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"https://planscore.campaignlegal.org/#!2020-statehouse\">PlanScore site\u003c/a>, 14 Assembly seats and 11 Senate seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade — a slight increase from 12 and 9 with the current districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission — which is \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">discussing Assembly maps this week\u003c/a> and state Senate districts the week of Dec. 14 — does not take into account the current district lines, or where incumbents live. That’s why the draft maps place as many as 29 state Assembly members and 14 state senators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-incumbents/\">in a district with another incumbent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators would have to move to another district to avoid running against a fellow lawmaker, though enforcement of the law has been weakened. The final lines also will determine who can challenge incumbents and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465806246573797380?s=20\">run for open seats\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=senate&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-senate&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor that is already influencing the potential partisan breakdown: legislators who are leaving voluntarily. Democratic Assemblymember Ed Chau of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, for example, was appointed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to a judgeship. Chau represents the only Asian-majority legislative district not just in California, but the continental U.S., according to redistricting expert \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paulmitche11/status/1465442490207518722\">Paul Mitchell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Democratic Assemblymembers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinmullin/status/1463196997511352322?s=20\">Kevin Mullin of San Mateo County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/10/school-walkout-2021-california/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b8c718bc04-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-b8c718bc04-150256405&mc_cid=b8c718bc04&mc_eid=498adde128#h-other-stories-you-should-know\">Rudy Salas of Bakersfield\u003c/a> and state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465459497367859201?s=20\">Sydney Kamlager of Los Angeles\u003c/a> all are eyeing U.S. House seats. Assemblymember Marc Levine of Marin County is running for insurance commissioner, and fellow Democratic Assemblymember Richard Bloom of Santa Monica is running for Los Angeles County supervisor, while \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmFrazier/status/1466143183503380488?s=20\">Assemblymember Jim Frazier, a Fairfield Democrat\u003c/a>, announced Dec. 1 that he’s stepping down Dec. 31 to seek a transportation job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some departures, however, Republicans have no realistic hope of winning a majority in the Legislature. But getting rid of the Democratic two-thirds supermajority — which \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">allows Democrats to pass tax increases\u003c/a> or put constitutional amendments on the ballot without any Republican votes — is conceivably within reach.[aside tag=\"redistricting\" label=\"More on CA redistricting\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Republicans were able to \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">flip at least seven seats in the Assembly and five in the state Senate\u003c/a>, they would have more influence over taxes and policy choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders shied away from commenting on the potential impact of the new districts while the commission is still at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In keeping with the distinct roles established by voters for the Legislature and the Citizens Redistricting Commission, we will not be able to provide comment on the draft maps,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins of San Diego and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon of Lakewood said in a joint statement provided Tuesday to CalMatters by a spokesperson. “While the Citizens Redistricting Commission does its job, the Legislature will continue to do ours — building upon the historic and transformative accomplishments that we have made in this legislative session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-u-s-house\">U.S. House\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In comparison, the competition and the stakes for California’s congressional seats could be a little higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis of the preliminary maps, 13 U.S. House seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade, compared to 10 within the existing districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=congress&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-congress&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">Republicans only need to flip five seats in 2022\u003c/a> to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives. And they’re well on their way, just from the GOP-controlled redistricting already completed, according to analyses of new congressional districts by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/\">Politico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not by accident: In most other states, redistricting is done by state legislatures, most of which \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures\">are under Republican control\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading into the 2022 elections, Democrats have a stranglehold on power in California: \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers\">fifty-nine of 80 seats in the state Assembly\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators\">31 of 40 in the state Senate\u003c/a>, plus 42 of 53 in the U.S. House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While slightly more competitive, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/race-and-partisan-leanings-in-californias-draft-redistricting-maps/\">preliminary districts aren’t likely to change\u003c/a> those numbers much, according to one study. Democrats are likely to keep 40 of 52 House seats, 62 Assembly seats and 31 Senate seats, says the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC, analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those party breakdowns could shift in the final districts that the \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">commission will be working on the next several weeks\u003c/a> before adopting them just before Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission, said that when seeking public comment, the commission didn’t ask for political affiliation. And he noted that the state constitution says that “districts may not be drawn for the purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent, political candidate, or political party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State Senate and Assembly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democrats have a supermajority in the state Legislature, and, under the draft maps, that doesn’t appear likely to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=assembly&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-assembly&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis, which uses data from the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"https://planscore.campaignlegal.org/#!2020-statehouse\">PlanScore site\u003c/a>, 14 Assembly seats and 11 Senate seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade — a slight increase from 12 and 9 with the current districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission — which is \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">discussing Assembly maps this week\u003c/a> and state Senate districts the week of Dec. 14 — does not take into account the current district lines, or where incumbents live. That’s why the draft maps place as many as 29 state Assembly members and 14 state senators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-incumbents/\">in a district with another incumbent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators would have to move to another district to avoid running against a fellow lawmaker, though enforcement of the law has been weakened. The final lines also will determine who can challenge incumbents and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465806246573797380?s=20\">run for open seats\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=senate&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-senate&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor that is already influencing the potential partisan breakdown: legislators who are leaving voluntarily. Democratic Assemblymember Ed Chau of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, for example, was appointed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to a judgeship. Chau represents the only Asian-majority legislative district not just in California, but the continental U.S., according to redistricting expert \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paulmitche11/status/1465442490207518722\">Paul Mitchell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Democratic Assemblymembers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinmullin/status/1463196997511352322?s=20\">Kevin Mullin of San Mateo County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/10/school-walkout-2021-california/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b8c718bc04-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-b8c718bc04-150256405&mc_cid=b8c718bc04&mc_eid=498adde128#h-other-stories-you-should-know\">Rudy Salas of Bakersfield\u003c/a> and state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465459497367859201?s=20\">Sydney Kamlager of Los Angeles\u003c/a> all are eyeing U.S. House seats. Assemblymember Marc Levine of Marin County is running for insurance commissioner, and fellow Democratic Assemblymember Richard Bloom of Santa Monica is running for Los Angeles County supervisor, while \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmFrazier/status/1466143183503380488?s=20\">Assemblymember Jim Frazier, a Fairfield Democrat\u003c/a>, announced Dec. 1 that he’s stepping down Dec. 31 to seek a transportation job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some departures, however, Republicans have no realistic hope of winning a majority in the Legislature. But getting rid of the Democratic two-thirds supermajority — which \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">allows Democrats to pass tax increases\u003c/a> or put constitutional amendments on the ballot without any Republican votes — is conceivably within reach.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Republicans were able to \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">flip at least seven seats in the Assembly and five in the state Senate\u003c/a>, they would have more influence over taxes and policy choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders shied away from commenting on the potential impact of the new districts while the commission is still at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In keeping with the distinct roles established by voters for the Legislature and the Citizens Redistricting Commission, we will not be able to provide comment on the draft maps,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins of San Diego and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon of Lakewood said in a joint statement provided Tuesday to CalMatters by a spokesperson. “While the Citizens Redistricting Commission does its job, the Legislature will continue to do ours — building upon the historic and transformative accomplishments that we have made in this legislative session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-u-s-house\">U.S. House\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In comparison, the competition and the stakes for California’s congressional seats could be a little higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis of the preliminary maps, 13 U.S. House seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade, compared to 10 within the existing districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=congress&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-congress&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">Republicans only need to flip five seats in 2022\u003c/a> to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives. And they’re well on their way, just from the GOP-controlled redistricting already completed, according to analyses of new congressional districts by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/\">Politico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not by accident: In most other states, redistricting is done by state legislatures, most of which \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures\">are under Republican control\u003c/a>. That includes states that gained congressional seats after the 2020 census, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/republicans-gerrymandering-north-carolina-supreme-court/620625/\">North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/texas/\">Texas\u003c/a>.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>(California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-congress-census/\">lost a seat for the first time ever\u003c/a>, complicating the redistricting process.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states where legislators drew the lines, nearly 90% of congressional races over the last decade were easy wins for one party or the other, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/18/redistricting-house-congressional-maps-522862\">Politico reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, which has led the charge for independent redistricting commissions statewide and on the local level, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_jonathanstein/status/1465353046234329094?s=20\">noted\u003c/a> that while the process has been “disruptive,” the alternative as seen in other states is a lot \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/aggressive-gerrymandering-may-make-elections-far-less-competitive-experts-say-n1284179\">more gerrymandering and less competition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. Final maps, which set in place district boundaries for the next decade, will need to be approved by Dec. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some takeaways on how the commission's lines could affect the political representation of Bay Area residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458651754443120641\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Congressional musical chairs \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The volunteer commissioners are responsible for drawing district lines that contain equal populations, protect the political voice of communities of color and language minorities and take into account \"communities of interest,\" such as cities, neighborhoods, demographic groups\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>or clusters of industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895797\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/110521-Redistricting-Election-MG-CM-01-1020x765.jpg\"]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>[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\"]These lines were informed by testimony to the commission that uniting Chinese communities in the Richmond, Sunset, Visitacion Valley and Bayview with Filipino neighborhoods in Daly City \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would result in a strong voice for working-class communities and their shared needs\u003c/a>, such as culturally specific social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the maps said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consolidation of those diverse Asian communities is to the detriment\u003c/a> of Asian, Black and Latino residents in San Francisco's other Assembly district.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In that east SF seat, the white citizens-of-voting-age population would jump from 39% under the current lines to 56% in the draft map, according to data provided by the Chinese American Voters Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tri-Valley splintered \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The commission has struggled with how to group the Tri-Valley, a handful of towns and cities spanning eastern Contra Costa and Alameda counties. 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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"content": "\u003cp>California’s future political lines are being drawn and debated in a once-in-a-decade process that could strengthen political representation for the Bay Area’s growing Asian populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redistricting is being carried out by a citizen panel whose decisions are rooted in the population changes reflected in the 2020 Census. In the last decade, California’s population that identifies as “Asian alone” grew by 1.2 million (25%) including an increase from 1.6 million to 2.4 million in the nine-county Bay Area (29%). In addition, California saw a 37.9% jump in people who identified as “Asian in combination” with another race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In percentage terms, the state’s Native American population saw the largest growth (74%) of any group in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those trends could result in more districts where Asian voters are either a majority or a powerful voting bloc. That, in turn, would require candidates to prioritize the issues that unite the region’s diverse Asian communities, such as culturally specific social services and protection against anti-Asian violence — or directly lead to the election of more Asian representatives, said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But political line drawing comes with trade-offs, and the commission is sure to draw fire for the communities they chose to group and split in a series of draft maps released this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Redistricting is more art than science,” said David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 850px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/SFmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894356 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/SFmap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" 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give an expanded political voice to growing communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That political tapestry is in the hands of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, a body of 14 residents created when voters passed Proposition 11 in 2008, taking the line-drawing powers away from the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s first priority is to draw maps of roughly equal size: roughly 1 million residents per state Senate district, 800,000 for congressional seats and 500,000 in each state Assembly district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, said Commissioner Isra Ahmad, the maps must comply with the federal Voting Rights Act, which ensures that people of color have a fair shot at electing representatives of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really is to ensure that [people of color] have an equal opportunity, and it is tied to the historical exclusion of [these] groups in their power of voting,” said Ahmad, a Santa Clara County researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission also tries to keep cities, counties and self-described “communities of interest” together, and to draw the districts in compact shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state Legislature ran the district-drawing process in 2001, they prioritized the protection of their own incumbent lawmakers over uniting neighborhoods like Berryessa, a predominately Asian community in north San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That particular neighborhood got chopped up so that it was then put into four different state Assembly districts and two different state Senate districts,” remembers Richard Konda, executive director of the San José-based Asian Law Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berryessa residents and businesses were such a small voice in each of the districts that their concerns were easily overlooked by local representatives, said Konda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, members of the community brought their concerns to the new citizens’ commission, and new lines reunified Berryessa in the most heavily Asian populated Assembly, Senate and congressional districts in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, census results could push line-makers to draw more districts with a sizable share of Asian voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m thinking about the dynamics of the Bay Area, the main thing in my mind is what’s going to happen with [representation of people of color] — in particular, how is this growth in the Asian American community going to emerge?” said Eric McGhee, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut-800x917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"917\" 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