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This Is How They Could Change Politics in the Bay Area","publishDate":1636707641,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"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. 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[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Five takeaways from the draft maps published by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission this week.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1636759096,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":970},"headData":{"title":"The Redistricting Draft Maps Are Here. 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This Is How They Could Change Politics in the Bay Area","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2021/11/SilerMarzoratiNewPoliticalMaps2Way.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1458651754443120641"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11895797","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/110521-Redistricting-Election-MG-CM-01-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"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","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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. 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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29954","news_332","news_1537","news_24484","news_17968","news_282"],"featImg":"news_11896030","label":"news"},"news_11895797":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11895797","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11895797","score":null,"sort":[1636590603000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-redistricting-commission-performs-a-tricky-balancing-act-in-redrawing-states-political-lines","title":"California's Redistricting Commission Performs a Tricky Balancing Act in Redrawing State's Political Lines","publishDate":1636590603,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"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 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Citizens Redistricting Commission, California's independent redistricting commission, walks a fine line in balancing the interests and demands of multiple groups across the state as it drafts new legislative and congressional districts.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1636604990,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1761},"headData":{"title":"California's Redistricting Commission Performs a Tricky Balancing Act in Redrawing State's Political Lines | KQED","description":"The Citizens Redistricting Commission, California's independent redistricting commission, walks a fine line in balancing the interests and demands of multiple groups across the state as it drafts new legislative and congressional districts.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California's Redistricting Commission Performs a Tricky Balancing Act in Redrawing State's Political Lines","datePublished":"2021-11-11T00:30:03.000Z","dateModified":"2021-11-11T04:29:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11895797 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11895797","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/10/californias-redistricting-commission-performs-a-tricky-balancing-act-in-redrawing-states-political-lines/","disqusTitle":"California's Redistricting Commission Performs a Tricky Balancing Act in Redrawing State's Political Lines","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/sameea-kamal/\">Sameea Kamal\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11895797/californias-redistricting-commission-performs-a-tricky-balancing-act-in-redrawing-states-political-lines","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"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","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1456381250441134089"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'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.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Fredy Ceja, communications director, California Citizens Redistricting Commission","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11895368","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","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. 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 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11895797/californias-redistricting-commission-performs-a-tricky-balancing-act-in-redrawing-states-political-lines","authors":["byline_news_11895797"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_26244","news_18538","news_29954","news_18012","news_332","news_1891","news_4","news_25290","news_17968","news_282","news_30221","news_29441"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11895908","label":"news_18481"},"news_11778135":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11778135","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11778135","score":null,"sort":[1570207434000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-models-how-to-banish-gerrymandering-and-why-thats-so-hard","title":"California Models How to Banish Gerrymandering — And Why That’s So Hard","publishDate":1570207434,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Ask Cynthia Dai what she’s been up to in her spare time, and she’ll say “saving democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade ago, she discovered that applications were about to close for citizens willing to serve on a new California commission that would redraw new congressional and legislative districts. The stakes were enormous. The state’s politicians previously drew lines to protect their jobs and maximize their party’s seats — one late Democrat called the resulting maps \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-02-oe-rarick2-story.html\">“my contribution to modern art.”\u003c/a> But by 2010, the state was creating a citizen’s commission to do the job more fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dai held degrees in electrical engineering, computer science and an MBA from Stanford. She decided to go for it. Why, when it required her to conquer an application process that she likened to applying for grad school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gerrymandering is evil!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She regards her work on the 2010 commission as one of the most meaningful things she’s done in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gerrymandering has led to extreme partisanship, which we are seeing all over the country right now, and it means that government can’t get the work of the people done. I feel that we played our part in fixing that, in California at least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Understanding Gerrymandering\" hero=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/06/assem2011mapfinal.gif\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/26074/redistricting-how-the-maps-of-power-are-drawn-with-lesson-plan,The Strange Geometry of Gerrymandering\" link2=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/education/2017/05/17/what-should-we-do-about-gerrymandering/,What Should We Do About Gerrymandering?\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/2296/redistricting-california-style-attempting-reform,Redistricting California Style\"]Today she’s often on the road to other states evangelizing the value of independent redistricting commissions. Her last stop was Pennsylvania, a state so plagued by gerrymandering that the contours of one district earned the nickname “\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/name-that-district-contest-winner-goofy-kicking-donald-duck/2011/12/29/gIQA2Fa2OP_blog.html\">Goofy kicking Donald Duck\u003c/a>.” (The state’s congressional map has since been redrawn by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even while California touts its commission approach as insurance against partisan shenanigans, the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/fair-elections/\">second crack\u003c/a> at trying to field a panel of anti-gerrymandering gurus hasn’t been so easy. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/08/california-citizen-redistricting-commission-diversity-problems/\">shrunken pool of applicants \u003c/a>for the next panel, which will draw lines after the 2020 census, skews more white and male than the state. Latinos are particularly underrepresented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pursuit of a diverse, qualified pool, the state extended the first deadline. Then it extended the second deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We act like ‘Oh my gosh, the problem is the deadline. The problem is people didn’t know’,” said Mike Madrid, a GOP consultant. “We should not fool ourselves into believing that that’s going to solve the problem because it’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid called the extensions a patchwork solution to a larger problem: Latinos aren’t civically engaged because they tend to have limited access to economic mobility. It’s not surprising, he said, that an ethnic group that typically loses in California’s political system would not be engaged. If the system does nothing for them, why participate at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll extend the deadline and they’ll do outreach and they’ll throw some money at trying to cover up the glaring problem and you know they’ll stumble towards getting something representative,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 17,000 Californians were considered tentatively eligible to be a part of the 2020 anti-gerrymandering squad. That means as long as their info was accurate once double-checked by the auditor’s office, they’ve reached the next level: a step that includes several essay questions and three letters of recommendation. The deadline has been extended to Oct. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here, things get dicey. So far more than 700 applicants have turned in their supplemental questions. But completed applications, which includes the letters of recommendation, have dropped to less than 400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Stan Forbes\"]\"You can't just let the politicians draw their own lines.\"[/pullquote]From the final applicant pool culled by a panel of auditors, State Auditor Elaine Howle will randomly select eight commissioners by July 5, 2020. Then those eight choose six more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margarita Fernandez, a spokesperson for the State Auditor’s office said she expects a surge in applicants the final week before the deadline. The office has led online workshops to help applicants through the process. She said hundreds of viewers have tuned in to navigate the next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Paul Michell of Political Data Inc. acknowledged that the process can be daunting. Nonetheless, he likes it better than the alternatives in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The process does make it hard to game the system. It would be nearly impossible for you to get any kind of significant number of commissioners in there that just happen to be the brother-in-law of the Speaker of the Assembly, or the sister-in-law of the president of the Senate or the cousin of the fundraiser for the governor,” said Mitchell. “That’s the kind of thing we see in commissions around the country. The way the process works and the independence of it from our politicians in California is kind of the greatest feature within this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mitchell, the drop in applicants was to be expected, especially as the novelty of a brand new, shiny commission wears off. And the state’s extension of the first deadline, he said, triggered a domino effect that made an extension necessary for the second phase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People now know what they’re getting into, said Stan Forbes, a Sacramento bookstore owner and member of the 2010 commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a paper due in college, how many people turned it in early? Nobody,” he said. “So when it gets to be two days before the deadline, then I might get more nervous. But at this point it’s just human nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes said his own cynicism about politics motivated him to serve on the commission, despite the fact that his day job forces him to work long hours seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just can’t let politicians draw their own lines. There’s too much self-interest,” he said. “They’re simply incapable of not exercising that self-interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Paul Mitchell\"]\"The process does make it hard to game the system. It would be nearly impossible for you to get any kind of significant number of commissioners in there that just happen to be the brother-in-law of the Speaker of the Assembly...\"[/pullquote]He said he doesn’t have a party preference but that working with other commissioners from political parties members wasn’t a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was fabulous,” he said. “You had a group of really like-minded individuals. They just wanted the system to work and they wanted the public to have a meaningful vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which was the goal all along. One of the biggest supporters of the commission is former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He pushed for a commission before California voters approved a 2008 ballot measure creating one. And he continues to preach its value. Last year, while filming for his recurring role as a T-800 cyborg, Schwarzenegger made time to share what he truly wants to terminate: gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know this is not the sexiest subject in town,” he said in an\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/schwarzenegger-campaigning-redistricting-michigan/572959/\"> interview\u003c/a> with The Atlantic last year. “It’s always about showing your passion and fighting for it. The worst thing you can do is sit on your couch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While taking a break from filming a new Terminator movie last year, he visited Colorado and Michigan to campaign for ballot measures creating independent commissions there. In both states, the measures passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As independent commissions become more popular, there is evidence that they are having the desired effect. Christian Grose, the academic director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, has conducted\u003ca href=\"https://issuu.com/robquigley/docs/the_worst_gerrymanders_of_2018_us_state_legislatur\"> research\u003c/a> showing that states with independent commissions tend to be fairer and more representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11363995\"]In California, “the statewide votes matched the outcomes somewhat more proportionally than we see in these other extreme gerrymandering states so in that sense the commission had an impact,” Grose said. “Similarly, Arizona has an independent commission that’s like California and they also had some fairly proportional vote and seat outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eligible applicants for California’s commission must be registered to vote since 2015 and not have changed their party preference since then. They also must answer “no” to questions designed to ensure they lack any conflict of interest, such as whether they’ve worked for a political party or campaign in the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phase two \u003ca href=\"https://shapecaliforniasfuture.auditor.ca.gov/example-applications/examples/supplemental.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">includes\u003c/a> four essay questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Why they want to serve and think the commission is important\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What it means to be impartial\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their appreciation for California’s diversity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Any relevant analytical skills they possess\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Once selected, commissioners receive a $300 stipend for each day they conduct commission business, plus expenses related to their duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicant Caroline Farrell, a Green party member who lives in Bakersfield, has no complaints about the vetting process. As a Green Party member from a conservative part of the state, she feels she would be a fair representative of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to find people who can put partisan ideas to the side and think more about what districts make sense for the state,” she said. “Personally, I think it would be really interesting to learn more about the different regions in California, the different issues, the different communities, the different ways people identify themselves with the place that they live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn more about California’s anti-gerrymandering squad \u003ca href=\"https://shapecaliforniasfuture.auditor.ca.gov/\">here\u003c/a> and take a look at the 2010 crew \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/bios/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters\u003c/a> a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California urges other states to go its way: Let citizens, not politicians, draw district maps. But the state's having a bit of trouble attracting a diverse, qualified pool of citizens willing to do the job.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1570207434,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1747},"headData":{"title":"California Models How to Banish Gerrymandering — And Why That’s So Hard | KQED","description":"California urges other states to go its way: Let citizens, not politicians, draw district maps. But the state's having a bit of trouble attracting a diverse, qualified pool of citizens willing to do the job.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Models How to Banish Gerrymandering — And Why That’s So Hard","datePublished":"2019-10-04T16:43:54.000Z","dateModified":"2019-10-04T16:43:54.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11778135 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11778135","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/04/california-models-how-to-banish-gerrymandering-and-why-thats-so-hard/","disqusTitle":"California Models How to Banish Gerrymandering — And Why That’s So Hard","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/10/california-trouble-filling-citizen-redistricting-commission-gerrymandering/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/elizabeth-castillo/\">Elizabeth Castillo\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>CALmatters\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11778135/california-models-how-to-banish-gerrymandering-and-why-thats-so-hard","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ask Cynthia Dai what she’s been up to in her spare time, and she’ll say “saving democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade ago, she discovered that applications were about to close for citizens willing to serve on a new California commission that would redraw new congressional and legislative districts. The stakes were enormous. The state’s politicians previously drew lines to protect their jobs and maximize their party’s seats — one late Democrat called the resulting maps \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-02-oe-rarick2-story.html\">“my contribution to modern art.”\u003c/a> But by 2010, the state was creating a citizen’s commission to do the job more fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dai held degrees in electrical engineering, computer science and an MBA from Stanford. She decided to go for it. Why, when it required her to conquer an application process that she likened to applying for grad school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gerrymandering is evil!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She regards her work on the 2010 commission as one of the most meaningful things she’s done in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gerrymandering has led to extreme partisanship, which we are seeing all over the country right now, and it means that government can’t get the work of the people done. I feel that we played our part in fixing that, in California at least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Understanding Gerrymandering ","hero":"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/06/assem2011mapfinal.gif","link1":"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/26074/redistricting-how-the-maps-of-power-are-drawn-with-lesson-plan,The Strange Geometry of Gerrymandering","link2":"https://ww2.kqed.org/education/2017/05/17/what-should-we-do-about-gerrymandering/,What Should We Do About Gerrymandering?","link3":"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/2296/redistricting-california-style-attempting-reform,Redistricting California Style"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Today she’s often on the road to other states evangelizing the value of independent redistricting commissions. Her last stop was Pennsylvania, a state so plagued by gerrymandering that the contours of one district earned the nickname “\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/name-that-district-contest-winner-goofy-kicking-donald-duck/2011/12/29/gIQA2Fa2OP_blog.html\">Goofy kicking Donald Duck\u003c/a>.” (The state’s congressional map has since been redrawn by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even while California touts its commission approach as insurance against partisan shenanigans, the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/fair-elections/\">second crack\u003c/a> at trying to field a panel of anti-gerrymandering gurus hasn’t been so easy. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/08/california-citizen-redistricting-commission-diversity-problems/\">shrunken pool of applicants \u003c/a>for the next panel, which will draw lines after the 2020 census, skews more white and male than the state. Latinos are particularly underrepresented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pursuit of a diverse, qualified pool, the state extended the first deadline. Then it extended the second deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We act like ‘Oh my gosh, the problem is the deadline. The problem is people didn’t know’,” said Mike Madrid, a GOP consultant. “We should not fool ourselves into believing that that’s going to solve the problem because it’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid called the extensions a patchwork solution to a larger problem: Latinos aren’t civically engaged because they tend to have limited access to economic mobility. It’s not surprising, he said, that an ethnic group that typically loses in California’s political system would not be engaged. If the system does nothing for them, why participate at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll extend the deadline and they’ll do outreach and they’ll throw some money at trying to cover up the glaring problem and you know they’ll stumble towards getting something representative,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 17,000 Californians were considered tentatively eligible to be a part of the 2020 anti-gerrymandering squad. That means as long as their info was accurate once double-checked by the auditor’s office, they’ve reached the next level: a step that includes several essay questions and three letters of recommendation. The deadline has been extended to Oct. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here, things get dicey. So far more than 700 applicants have turned in their supplemental questions. But completed applications, which includes the letters of recommendation, have dropped to less than 400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"You can't just let the politicians draw their own lines.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"left","citation":"Stan Forbes","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>From the final applicant pool culled by a panel of auditors, State Auditor Elaine Howle will randomly select eight commissioners by July 5, 2020. Then those eight choose six more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margarita Fernandez, a spokesperson for the State Auditor’s office said she expects a surge in applicants the final week before the deadline. The office has led online workshops to help applicants through the process. She said hundreds of viewers have tuned in to navigate the next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Paul Michell of Political Data Inc. acknowledged that the process can be daunting. Nonetheless, he likes it better than the alternatives in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The process does make it hard to game the system. It would be nearly impossible for you to get any kind of significant number of commissioners in there that just happen to be the brother-in-law of the Speaker of the Assembly, or the sister-in-law of the president of the Senate or the cousin of the fundraiser for the governor,” said Mitchell. “That’s the kind of thing we see in commissions around the country. The way the process works and the independence of it from our politicians in California is kind of the greatest feature within this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mitchell, the drop in applicants was to be expected, especially as the novelty of a brand new, shiny commission wears off. And the state’s extension of the first deadline, he said, triggered a domino effect that made an extension necessary for the second phase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People now know what they’re getting into, said Stan Forbes, a Sacramento bookstore owner and member of the 2010 commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a paper due in college, how many people turned it in early? Nobody,” he said. “So when it gets to be two days before the deadline, then I might get more nervous. But at this point it’s just human nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes said his own cynicism about politics motivated him to serve on the commission, despite the fact that his day job forces him to work long hours seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just can’t let politicians draw their own lines. There’s too much self-interest,” he said. “They’re simply incapable of not exercising that self-interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"The process does make it hard to game the system. It would be nearly impossible for you to get any kind of significant number of commissioners in there that just happen to be the brother-in-law of the Speaker of the Assembly...\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"left","citation":"Paul Mitchell","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He said he doesn’t have a party preference but that working with other commissioners from political parties members wasn’t a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was fabulous,” he said. “You had a group of really like-minded individuals. They just wanted the system to work and they wanted the public to have a meaningful vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which was the goal all along. One of the biggest supporters of the commission is former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He pushed for a commission before California voters approved a 2008 ballot measure creating one. And he continues to preach its value. Last year, while filming for his recurring role as a T-800 cyborg, Schwarzenegger made time to share what he truly wants to terminate: gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know this is not the sexiest subject in town,” he said in an\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/schwarzenegger-campaigning-redistricting-michigan/572959/\"> interview\u003c/a> with The Atlantic last year. “It’s always about showing your passion and fighting for it. The worst thing you can do is sit on your couch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While taking a break from filming a new Terminator movie last year, he visited Colorado and Michigan to campaign for ballot measures creating independent commissions there. In both states, the measures passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As independent commissions become more popular, there is evidence that they are having the desired effect. Christian Grose, the academic director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, has conducted\u003ca href=\"https://issuu.com/robquigley/docs/the_worst_gerrymanders_of_2018_us_state_legislatur\"> research\u003c/a> showing that states with independent commissions tend to be fairer and more representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11363995","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In California, “the statewide votes matched the outcomes somewhat more proportionally than we see in these other extreme gerrymandering states so in that sense the commission had an impact,” Grose said. “Similarly, Arizona has an independent commission that’s like California and they also had some fairly proportional vote and seat outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eligible applicants for California’s commission must be registered to vote since 2015 and not have changed their party preference since then. They also must answer “no” to questions designed to ensure they lack any conflict of interest, such as whether they’ve worked for a political party or campaign in the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phase two \u003ca href=\"https://shapecaliforniasfuture.auditor.ca.gov/example-applications/examples/supplemental.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">includes\u003c/a> four essay questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Why they want to serve and think the commission is important\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What it means to be impartial\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their appreciation for California’s diversity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Any relevant analytical skills they possess\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Once selected, commissioners receive a $300 stipend for each day they conduct commission business, plus expenses related to their duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicant Caroline Farrell, a Green party member who lives in Bakersfield, has no complaints about the vetting process. As a Green Party member from a conservative part of the state, she feels she would be a fair representative of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to find people who can put partisan ideas to the side and think more about what districts make sense for the state,” she said. “Personally, I think it would be really interesting to learn more about the different regions in California, the different issues, the different communities, the different ways people identify themselves with the place that they live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn more about California’s anti-gerrymandering squad \u003ca href=\"https://shapecaliforniasfuture.auditor.ca.gov/\">here\u003c/a> and take a look at the 2010 crew \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/bios/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters\u003c/a> a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11778135/california-models-how-to-banish-gerrymandering-and-why-thats-so-hard","authors":["byline_news_11778135"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_332","news_20682","news_282"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11778139","label":"source_news_11778135"},"news_10581630":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10581630","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10581630","score":null,"sort":[1435596026000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-congressional-maps-get-legal-protection-via-arizona","title":"California's Congressional Maps Get Legal Protection Via Arizona","publishDate":1435596026,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The notion that California's 53 congressional districts could be redrawn before the 2016 elections and that legislators would wield the pencils yielded tons of buzz among politicos these past few months. One problem: The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a majority of the high court's justices ruled in favor of Arizona's voter-approved system of having the lines drawn by an independent commission -- a case that had profound implications for a similar commission in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: The status quo remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our precedent teaches that redistricting is a legislative function, to be performed in accordance with the State’s prescriptions for lawmaking,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-1314_kjfl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 5-4 ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case seemed to hinge on the meaning of the word \"legislature\" in Article I, Section IV of the Constitution:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Arizona Legislature, which was stripped of its redistricting power by the state's \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Creation_of_a_Redistricting_Commission,_Proposition_106_(2000)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 106 in 2000\u003c/a>, argued that verbiage makes clear that only a state's legislative body has power over the elements that dictate that state's congressional elections. That includes, they told the justices this past March, the drawing of congressional districts once a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10581687\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10581687 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/VotingBooths1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Voting booths at Hermosa Beach City Hall during California primary\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting booths at Hermosa Beach City Hall during California primary \u003ccite>(Daniel Sofer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Arizona's redistricting commission argued that the state’s initiative process vests legislative powers in voters as well as lawmakers. California’s redistricting commission, as well as three former governors, filed their amicus briefs backing up that assertion. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/26/might-gerrymandering-return-to-california-via-arizona-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">California's system was, in some ways, modeled after the one in Arizona\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any invalidation of the Grand Canyon State's system was widely believed to spell doom for the congressional maps drawn here in 2011. Those maps were the product of \u003ca href=\"http://voiceofoc.org/2011/07/tears-over-race-punctuate-weekend-meeting-of-redistricting-panel/\" target=\"_blank\">intense and emotional debate by the state's new citizens commission that summer\u003c/a>, especially in the trade-offs at hand for Latino and African-American communities in and around Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the commission's power to draw those maps been outlawed by a ruling against the Arizona panel, the California Legislature would have been thrust into a job it hasn't done since 2001 -- a process that was so roundly criticized as blatant political gerrymandering that it led to ballot initiatives in \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_11,_Creation_of_the_California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission_(2008)\" target=\"_blank\">2008\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_20,_Congressional_Redistricting_(2010)\" target=\"_blank\">2010\u003c/a> to permanently give the job to a commission of California citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators would have had to navigate both legal and political hurdles, using outdated census data to draw congressional maps in a matter of weeks for the 2016 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginsburg's ruling in the case made clear that the court's majority believes Arizona's legislators were misreading the constitutional intent of describing a state's role in overseeing the election of its members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We hold that the Elections Clause permits the people of Arizona to provide for redistricting by independent commission. To restate the key question in this case, the issue centrally debated by the parties: Absent congressional authorization, does the Elections Clause preclude the people of Arizona from creating a commission operating independently of the state legislature to establish congressional districts? The history and purpose of the Clause weigh heavily against such preclusion, as does the animating principle of our Constitution that the people themselves are the originating source of all the powers of government.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ginsburg was joined in affirming the power of voters to change the rules of redistricting by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Kennedy was, as in so many cases, the most interesting of the jurists to watch; \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/03/does-independent-redistricting-fate-lie-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy/\" target=\"_blank\">as a young attorney in his native Sacramento, he helped draft a tax-cutting initiative championed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1972\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority seemed particularly troubled by the notion that Arizona's legislators wanted to single out congressional elections as unique; as in California, the state's redistricting commission also draws political boundaries for its legislative races. Those powers were not at issue, because they don't involve federal elections. \"The [Constitution's Elections] Clause surely was not adopted to diminish a state’s authority to determine its own lawmaking processes,\" wrote Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the dissent, mocked the idea that the constitutional language regarding congressional elections could be interpreted widely enough to allow voters to play the role of a legislative power:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Court's position has no basis in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution, and it contradicts precedents from both Congress and this Court. The Constitution contains seventeen provisions referring to the \"Legislature\" of a State, many of which cannot possibly be read to mean 'the people'... Nowhere does the majority explain how a constitutional provision that vests redistricting authority in 'the Legislature' permits a State to wholly exclude 'the Legislature' from redistricting.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Roberts was joined in his dissent by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. He wrote that Arizonans who were concerned about an unfair process of drawing congressional maps could have, and perhaps should have, petitioned Congress for help -- and that Congress has power under the U.S. Constitution to intervene. Or, he wrote, citizens could work to amend the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Roberts concluded his dissent with a sharp jab at his fellow justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately,\" he wrote, \"today’s decision will only discourage this democratic method of change. Why go through the hassle of writing a new provision into the Constitution when it is so much\u003cbr>\neasier to write an old one out?\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of voters to strip legislatures of their redistricting power.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1435614038,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":939},"headData":{"title":"California's Congressional Maps Get Legal Protection Via Arizona | KQED","description":"The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of voters to strip legislatures of their redistricting power.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California's Congressional Maps Get Legal Protection Via Arizona","datePublished":"2015-06-29T16:40:26.000Z","dateModified":"2015-06-29T21:40:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10581630 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10581630","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/29/californias-congressional-maps-get-legal-protection-via-arizona/","disqusTitle":"California's Congressional Maps Get Legal Protection Via Arizona","customPermalink":"2015/06/29/california-congressional-maps/get-legal-protection-via-arizona/","path":"/news/10581630/californias-congressional-maps-get-legal-protection-via-arizona","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The notion that California's 53 congressional districts could be redrawn before the 2016 elections and that legislators would wield the pencils yielded tons of buzz among politicos these past few months. One problem: The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a majority of the high court's justices ruled in favor of Arizona's voter-approved system of having the lines drawn by an independent commission -- a case that had profound implications for a similar commission in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: The status quo remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our precedent teaches that redistricting is a legislative function, to be performed in accordance with the State’s prescriptions for lawmaking,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-1314_kjfl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 5-4 ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case seemed to hinge on the meaning of the word \"legislature\" in Article I, Section IV of the Constitution:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Arizona Legislature, which was stripped of its redistricting power by the state's \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Creation_of_a_Redistricting_Commission,_Proposition_106_(2000)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 106 in 2000\u003c/a>, argued that verbiage makes clear that only a state's legislative body has power over the elements that dictate that state's congressional elections. That includes, they told the justices this past March, the drawing of congressional districts once a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10581687\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10581687 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/VotingBooths1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Voting booths at Hermosa Beach City Hall during California primary\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting booths at Hermosa Beach City Hall during California primary \u003ccite>(Daniel Sofer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Arizona's redistricting commission argued that the state’s initiative process vests legislative powers in voters as well as lawmakers. California’s redistricting commission, as well as three former governors, filed their amicus briefs backing up that assertion. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/26/might-gerrymandering-return-to-california-via-arizona-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">California's system was, in some ways, modeled after the one in Arizona\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any invalidation of the Grand Canyon State's system was widely believed to spell doom for the congressional maps drawn here in 2011. Those maps were the product of \u003ca href=\"http://voiceofoc.org/2011/07/tears-over-race-punctuate-weekend-meeting-of-redistricting-panel/\" target=\"_blank\">intense and emotional debate by the state's new citizens commission that summer\u003c/a>, especially in the trade-offs at hand for Latino and African-American communities in and around Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the commission's power to draw those maps been outlawed by a ruling against the Arizona panel, the California Legislature would have been thrust into a job it hasn't done since 2001 -- a process that was so roundly criticized as blatant political gerrymandering that it led to ballot initiatives in \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_11,_Creation_of_the_California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission_(2008)\" target=\"_blank\">2008\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_20,_Congressional_Redistricting_(2010)\" target=\"_blank\">2010\u003c/a> to permanently give the job to a commission of California citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators would have had to navigate both legal and political hurdles, using outdated census data to draw congressional maps in a matter of weeks for the 2016 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginsburg's ruling in the case made clear that the court's majority believes Arizona's legislators were misreading the constitutional intent of describing a state's role in overseeing the election of its members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We hold that the Elections Clause permits the people of Arizona to provide for redistricting by independent commission. To restate the key question in this case, the issue centrally debated by the parties: Absent congressional authorization, does the Elections Clause preclude the people of Arizona from creating a commission operating independently of the state legislature to establish congressional districts? The history and purpose of the Clause weigh heavily against such preclusion, as does the animating principle of our Constitution that the people themselves are the originating source of all the powers of government.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ginsburg was joined in affirming the power of voters to change the rules of redistricting by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Kennedy was, as in so many cases, the most interesting of the jurists to watch; \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/03/does-independent-redistricting-fate-lie-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy/\" target=\"_blank\">as a young attorney in his native Sacramento, he helped draft a tax-cutting initiative championed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1972\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority seemed particularly troubled by the notion that Arizona's legislators wanted to single out congressional elections as unique; as in California, the state's redistricting commission also draws political boundaries for its legislative races. Those powers were not at issue, because they don't involve federal elections. \"The [Constitution's Elections] Clause surely was not adopted to diminish a state’s authority to determine its own lawmaking processes,\" wrote Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the dissent, mocked the idea that the constitutional language regarding congressional elections could be interpreted widely enough to allow voters to play the role of a legislative power:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Court's position has no basis in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution, and it contradicts precedents from both Congress and this Court. The Constitution contains seventeen provisions referring to the \"Legislature\" of a State, many of which cannot possibly be read to mean 'the people'... Nowhere does the majority explain how a constitutional provision that vests redistricting authority in 'the Legislature' permits a State to wholly exclude 'the Legislature' from redistricting.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Roberts was joined in his dissent by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. He wrote that Arizonans who were concerned about an unfair process of drawing congressional maps could have, and perhaps should have, petitioned Congress for help -- and that Congress has power under the U.S. Constitution to intervene. Or, he wrote, citizens could work to amend the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Roberts concluded his dissent with a sharp jab at his fellow justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately,\" he wrote, \"today’s decision will only discourage this democratic method of change. Why go through the hassle of writing a new provision into the Constitution when it is so much\u003cbr>\neasier to write an old one out?\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10581630/californias-congressional-maps-get-legal-protection-via-arizona","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_332","news_17599","news_282","news_1172"],"featImg":"news_10581740","label":"news_7051"},"news_10447299":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10447299","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10447299","score":null,"sort":[1425369675000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"does-independent-redistrictings-fate-lie-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy","title":"Does Fate of Independent Redistricting Lie in Anthony Kennedy's Hands?","publishDate":1425369675,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It certainly has all the makings of a good dramatic script: partisan schemes inside the halls of power ... thwarted years ago by voters at the ballot box ... now facing the judgment of a court whose tie-breaking vote lies in the hands of a man who himself dabbled in the hurly-burly of state politics and government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The star of this drama is, perhaps not surprisingly, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. And the plot revolves around whether voters can wrest away from legislators the power to draw political maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a hearing that lasted 61 minutes, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/13-1314_q8l1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the official transcript\u003c/a>, the nation's highest court on Monday weighed the constitutionality of Arizona's independent redistricting commission -- a case that could not only strip that state's commission of its power to draw maps for the U.S. House of Representatives, but which also threatens the viability of a similar system here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194057080\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has long been the man in the middle on the U.S. Supreme Court. But before pondering the various legal arguments in \u003cem>Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission\u003c/em>, let's remember \u003ca href=\"http://www.biography.com/people/anthony-kennedy-9362868#lawyer-and-judge\" target=\"_blank\">the biography of Justice Kennedy, born more than 79 years ago in Sacramento\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Described in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/12/us/man-in-the-news-restrained-pragmatist-anthony-m-kennedy.html?pagewanted=2\" target=\"_blank\">a 1987 profile\u003c/a> as the son of \"a politically connected lawyer and lobbyist\" father, Kennedy was recruited in 1972 to help draft a statewide ballot measure for Gov. Ronald Reagan that would limit state government spending. (Note to those who are fans of foreshadowing: The premise of the initiative was that voters needed to do something that state legislators wouldn't do.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy's work on what became \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Tax_and_Spending_Limits_%281973%29\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 1\u003c/a> seems to have won respect from Reagan, even though voters rejected the initiative. Kennedy was appointed to the federal bench in 1975, and we all know where both men went from there: Reagan to the White House in 1980, Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court as Reagan's appointee in 1987.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is to say that Anthony Kennedy no doubt knows well -- more than any of his fellow justices -- the power that initiatives give to voters to work independently of legislators in writing laws. Which brings us to the case of Arizona's redistricting commission, created by … yep ... \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Creation_of_a_Redistricting_Commission,_Proposition_106_%282000%29\" target=\"_blank\">voters writing their own law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Kennedy seemed squarely in the middle of the tug-of-war over the legality of Arizona voters cutting the state's legislators out of the picture when it came to drawing congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/26/might-gerrymandering-return-to-california-via-arizona-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">crux of the case\u003c/a> is whether the United States Constitution's guidance on elections to Congress limits involvement to an \u003cem>elected\u003c/em> legislature ... or simply allows decisions made through the use of a state's \u003cem>legislative power\u003c/em>, a power in which Arizona and California both divide between elected officials and voters at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of the Arizona Legislature who brought the lawsuit say the Constitution's words have one simple meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It means then what it means now, which is a representative body of the people,\" argued attorney \u003ca href=\"http://www.bancroftpllc.com/professionals/paul-d-clement/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Clement\u003c/a> about Article I, Section 4: \u003cem>The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we object to is the permanent wresting of authority away from the state legislature,\" Clement, a former U.S. Solicitor General, told the nine justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side was \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilmerhale.com/seth_waxman/\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Waxman\u003c/a>, also a former U.S. Solicitor General and representing Arizona's independent redistricting commission. \"Arizona,\" he said, \"defines its legislature in its constitution to include both the people and two representative bodies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's more liberal wing seemed to largely ask questions and make arguments that support the independent redistricting commission's power to draw Arizona's nine congressional districts; its conservative members, on the other hand, stuck to the idea that only an elected legislature has authority to hold the reins of how a state elects its members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Justice Elena Kagan, when describing how many laws are written in states like Arizona by voters flexing their legislative power: \"The sort of purity of the originalist argument that a 'legislature means a legislature,' well, we are miles away from that, aren't we?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from Justice Antonin Scalia, disagreeing that legislative power means more than just a body of elected officials: \"I don't think it was a consensus definition at all. You've plucked that out of, out of a couple of dictionaries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what of our main character, the jurist from California? Court watchers \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/03/argument-analysis-literalism-vs-the-power-of-the-people/\" target=\"_blank\">will make their own expert judgments\u003c/a>, but it certainly seemed like Justice Kennedy was weighing both sides carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When discussing how courts have had to step in when legislators were believed to have unfairly drawn maps (as happened in California three times in the last four decades of the 20th century), Kennedy suggested there are times when the power of the Legislature over redistricting is not absolute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10447382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 679px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10447382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf.jpg\" alt=\"A drawing made on Monday during oral arguments by Kathay Feng, one of the architects of California's redistricting commission.\" width=\"679\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf.jpg 679w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-400x392.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-320x314.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drawing made on Monday during oral arguments by Kathay Feng, one of the architects of California's redistricting commission. \u003ccite>(Drawing: Kathay Feng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It seems to me that that's as much of a displacement as what you're talking about here,\" Kennedy said to the attorney representing Arizona lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Kennedy seemed skeptical of the more lenient definition of legislative power being argued by the Arizona commission's attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems to me,\" he said, \"that history works very much against you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of poking and prodding is what judges often do in deciding the merits of one side or the other. It doesn't tell us where Kennedy, who once drafted an initiative to sidestep a recalcitrant California Legislature, will ultimately land on this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of legal observers believe that California's independent redistricting for congressional districts won't survive if Arizona's system is nullified by the Supreme Court. And that could make it quite possible that Anthony Kennedy's name -- like those of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_the_Initiative_%26_Referendum_Amendment_%28October_1911%29\" target=\"_blank\">Hiram Johnson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-13/news/mn-17682_1_jarvis-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Jarvis\u003c/a>, among others -- will be remembered as an important character in the long story of California voters taking power away from their elected representatives in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Supreme Court's native Californian may be deciding vote in Arizona case with relevance to Golden State.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324199,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1087},"headData":{"title":"Does Fate of Independent Redistricting Lie in Anthony Kennedy's Hands? | KQED","description":"Supreme Court's native Californian may be deciding vote in Arizona case with relevance to Golden State.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Does Fate of Independent Redistricting Lie in Anthony Kennedy's Hands?","datePublished":"2015-03-03T08:01:15.000Z","dateModified":"2015-05-22T19:49:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10447299 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10447299","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/03/does-independent-redistrictings-fate-lie-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy/","disqusTitle":"Does Fate of Independent Redistricting Lie in Anthony Kennedy's Hands?","customPermalink":"2015/03/03/does-independent-redistricting-fate-lie-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy/","path":"/news/10447299/does-independent-redistrictings-fate-lie-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It certainly has all the makings of a good dramatic script: partisan schemes inside the halls of power ... thwarted years ago by voters at the ballot box ... now facing the judgment of a court whose tie-breaking vote lies in the hands of a man who himself dabbled in the hurly-burly of state politics and government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The star of this drama is, perhaps not surprisingly, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. And the plot revolves around whether voters can wrest away from legislators the power to draw political maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a hearing that lasted 61 minutes, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/13-1314_q8l1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the official transcript\u003c/a>, the nation's highest court on Monday weighed the constitutionality of Arizona's independent redistricting commission -- a case that could not only strip that state's commission of its power to draw maps for the U.S. House of Representatives, but which also threatens the viability of a similar system here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194057080&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194057080'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has long been the man in the middle on the U.S. Supreme Court. But before pondering the various legal arguments in \u003cem>Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission\u003c/em>, let's remember \u003ca href=\"http://www.biography.com/people/anthony-kennedy-9362868#lawyer-and-judge\" target=\"_blank\">the biography of Justice Kennedy, born more than 79 years ago in Sacramento\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Described in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/12/us/man-in-the-news-restrained-pragmatist-anthony-m-kennedy.html?pagewanted=2\" target=\"_blank\">a 1987 profile\u003c/a> as the son of \"a politically connected lawyer and lobbyist\" father, Kennedy was recruited in 1972 to help draft a statewide ballot measure for Gov. Ronald Reagan that would limit state government spending. (Note to those who are fans of foreshadowing: The premise of the initiative was that voters needed to do something that state legislators wouldn't do.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy's work on what became \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Tax_and_Spending_Limits_%281973%29\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 1\u003c/a> seems to have won respect from Reagan, even though voters rejected the initiative. Kennedy was appointed to the federal bench in 1975, and we all know where both men went from there: Reagan to the White House in 1980, Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court as Reagan's appointee in 1987.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is to say that Anthony Kennedy no doubt knows well -- more than any of his fellow justices -- the power that initiatives give to voters to work independently of legislators in writing laws. Which brings us to the case of Arizona's redistricting commission, created by … yep ... \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Creation_of_a_Redistricting_Commission,_Proposition_106_%282000%29\" target=\"_blank\">voters writing their own law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Kennedy seemed squarely in the middle of the tug-of-war over the legality of Arizona voters cutting the state's legislators out of the picture when it came to drawing congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/26/might-gerrymandering-return-to-california-via-arizona-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">crux of the case\u003c/a> is whether the United States Constitution's guidance on elections to Congress limits involvement to an \u003cem>elected\u003c/em> legislature ... or simply allows decisions made through the use of a state's \u003cem>legislative power\u003c/em>, a power in which Arizona and California both divide between elected officials and voters at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of the Arizona Legislature who brought the lawsuit say the Constitution's words have one simple meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It means then what it means now, which is a representative body of the people,\" argued attorney \u003ca href=\"http://www.bancroftpllc.com/professionals/paul-d-clement/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Clement\u003c/a> about Article I, Section 4: \u003cem>The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we object to is the permanent wresting of authority away from the state legislature,\" Clement, a former U.S. Solicitor General, told the nine justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side was \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilmerhale.com/seth_waxman/\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Waxman\u003c/a>, also a former U.S. Solicitor General and representing Arizona's independent redistricting commission. \"Arizona,\" he said, \"defines its legislature in its constitution to include both the people and two representative bodies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's more liberal wing seemed to largely ask questions and make arguments that support the independent redistricting commission's power to draw Arizona's nine congressional districts; its conservative members, on the other hand, stuck to the idea that only an elected legislature has authority to hold the reins of how a state elects its members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Justice Elena Kagan, when describing how many laws are written in states like Arizona by voters flexing their legislative power: \"The sort of purity of the originalist argument that a 'legislature means a legislature,' well, we are miles away from that, aren't we?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from Justice Antonin Scalia, disagreeing that legislative power means more than just a body of elected officials: \"I don't think it was a consensus definition at all. You've plucked that out of, out of a couple of dictionaries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what of our main character, the jurist from California? Court watchers \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/03/argument-analysis-literalism-vs-the-power-of-the-people/\" target=\"_blank\">will make their own expert judgments\u003c/a>, but it certainly seemed like Justice Kennedy was weighing both sides carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When discussing how courts have had to step in when legislators were believed to have unfairly drawn maps (as happened in California three times in the last four decades of the 20th century), Kennedy suggested there are times when the power of the Legislature over redistricting is not absolute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10447382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 679px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10447382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf.jpg\" alt=\"A drawing made on Monday during oral arguments by Kathay Feng, one of the architects of California's redistricting commission.\" width=\"679\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf.jpg 679w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-400x392.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-320x314.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/B_H9l5UWkAA9TLf-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drawing made on Monday during oral arguments by Kathay Feng, one of the architects of California's redistricting commission. \u003ccite>(Drawing: Kathay Feng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It seems to me that that's as much of a displacement as what you're talking about here,\" Kennedy said to the attorney representing Arizona lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Kennedy seemed skeptical of the more lenient definition of legislative power being argued by the Arizona commission's attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems to me,\" he said, \"that history works very much against you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of poking and prodding is what judges often do in deciding the merits of one side or the other. It doesn't tell us where Kennedy, who once drafted an initiative to sidestep a recalcitrant California Legislature, will ultimately land on this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of legal observers believe that California's independent redistricting for congressional districts won't survive if Arizona's system is nullified by the Supreme Court. And that could make it quite possible that Anthony Kennedy's name -- like those of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_the_Initiative_%26_Referendum_Amendment_%28October_1911%29\" target=\"_blank\">Hiram Johnson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-13/news/mn-17682_1_jarvis-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Jarvis\u003c/a>, among others -- will be remembered as an important character in the long story of California voters taking power away from their elected representatives in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10447299/does-independent-redistrictings-fate-lie-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_332","news_17041","news_1172"],"featImg":"news_10447380","label":"news_7051"},"news_10416571":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10416571","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10416571","score":null,"sort":[1422378616000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-gerrymandering-comeback-in-california-via-arizona","title":"A Gerrymandering Comeback in California ... via Arizona?","publishDate":1422378616,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Several months of quiet whispers have quickly turned into a resounding buzz -- and a nervous buzz, no less -- about a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that questions whether it's constitutional for independent state commissions to have the sole power to draw political district maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is centered on Arizona, but the buzz being heard on this side of the Colorado River arises from the fear that if a lower court's ruling is thrown out, California may very well be next in the return to partisan congressional gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Arizona litigation jeopardizes the will of the California electorate and its embrace of fair redistricting and competitive elections.'\u003ccite>Allan Zaremberg, President, California Chamber of Commerce\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It explains why everyone from legal scholars to three former California governors is asking to be heard before the nation's highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case in question is \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/arizona-state-legislature-v-arizona-independent-redistricting-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission\u003c/a>, now scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in March. And the argument being made by Arizona's legislative leaders in their quest to outlaw the state's redistricting commission is pretty simple: The U.S. Constitution, they say, vests all power over congressional elections in state legislatures -- and no one else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal fight has been brewing for a long time. Arizona voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Creation_of_a_Redistricting_Commission,_Proposition_106_(2000)\" target=\"_blank\">a ballot initiative\u003c/a> in 2000 that created an independent redistricting commission. A decade later,California voters \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_20,_Congressional_Redistricting_%282010%29\" target=\"_blank\">assigned the drawing of congressional districts\u003c/a> to a similar panel (after giving the panel \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_11,_Creation_of_the_California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission_%282008%29\" target=\"_blank\">the power to draw legislative districts\u003c/a> in 2008).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Californians Speak Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a swarm of Californians are filing \u003cem>amici curiae\u003c/em> briefs on behalf of the \u003ca href=\"http://azredistricting.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission\u003c/a>, clearly fearing that the fate of the \u003ca href=\"http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> depends on what happens in Washington, D.C., before the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California's commissioners have filed their own \u003ca href=\"http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/downloads/meeting_handouts_201501/20150123_crc_amicus_13-1314.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">amicus brief\u003c/a> in support of the Arizona panel, their fight was joined on Friday by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calchamber.com/Headlines/Pages/01262015-CalChamberFormerGovsFileAmicusBriefinArizonaRedistrictingCase.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a similar brief\u003c/a> from three former California governors -- George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Of those, Schwarzenegger has the most to lose in terms of his legacy, as he was a driving force behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-21/californias-redistricting-shake-up-shakes-out-politicians\" target=\"_blank\">the two initiatives that wrestled control of political map drawing away from the Legislature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governors were joined in their filing by the California Chamber of Commerce as well as wealthy activists \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/10/11/2729083/charles-munger-cal-poly-speaker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Munger Jr.\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://billmundell.net/2010/10/12/prop-20-fair-redistricting-empowers-dissenters/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Mundell\u003c/a> -- two big money backers of the redistricting initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's fascinating that the California cavalry is rushing in to defend its Arizona compatriots now, given that this effort to kill Arizona's redistricting commission is pretty much down to its last swing of the bat. A U.S. District Court ruled against Arizona's legislative leaders last February, and it's not exactly clear that the Supreme Court justices will even consider all of the arguments made by legislators seeking to regain their redistricting power. Perhaps, but everyone still sees the stakes as high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Arizona litigation,\" said California Chamber of Commerce President Allan Zaremberg, \"jeopardizes the will of the California electorate and its embrace of fair redistricting and competitive elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Can 'Legislate'?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the average observer, the crux of the case may be this: Is the power of Arizona voters to write legislation -- legislation written through the ballot initiative process -- equivalent to the legislative power over elections in Article I, Section IV of the Constitution:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Arizona's legislative leaders say, quite simply: no way. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV4/13-1314_appnt.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">their December filing with the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a>, they argue the above passage is crystal clear:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The term 'the Legislature' is clear and explicit and has an unambiguous meaning repeatedly recognized by the Framers and this Court: the representative lawmaking body of a State. In the Constitution, the Framers carefully assigned particular obligations to particular State-level entities, whether the 'people,' the 'legislature,' the 'executive,' or the 'State' generally. That precise division of labor leaves no doubt that they intended that 'the Legislature' -- meaning the representative lawmaking body -- be the entity that 'prescribe[s]...Regulations governing redistricting.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's worth noting that \u003ca href=\"http://azredistricting.org/About-IRC/Commissioners.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona's independent redistricting commission\u003c/a> is selected by a different process than the one in California, though Golden State activists and lawmakers may have used parts of the Arizona process to help shape the final details that were drafted in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arizona, the independent commission has five members. Four of them are chosen by the state's legislative leaders from a pool vetted by a judicial commission; the chairperson of the commission is then selected (out of the remaining applicants) by the four commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the panel is 14 members. Eight commissioners are chosen at random, from a pool of applicants vetted by the state auditor but from which each of the four legislative leaders is able to reject six names. Those eight commissioners then choose six colleagues from the remaining applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If Arizona's System Is Struck Down ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a layman's perspective, if Arizona legislators are successful in convincing the Supreme Court that they been stripped of their right to have a role in crafting congressional maps -- \u003cem>even though the Arizona system allows top lawmakers to pick four-fifths of the commission\u003c/em> -- then it would seem much easier for California's legislators, who have a much smaller role, to argue they, too, have been wronged. Remember, the entire political campaign was about stripping politicians of their power to draw congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And in case you're confused, the pending Supreme Court case is only about drawing \u003cem>congressional\u003c/em> districts, not those for Arizona's Legislature.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most states across the nation continue to have their political maps drawn by legislators -- a power that's led to countless charges of districts skewed by gerrymandering for partisan gain. And that's what supporters of independent redistricting say will happen again if the high court strips the Arizona commission of its power to craft the state's nine congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Arizona Legislature's lawsuit is just an effort to get the foxes back in the henhouse,\" said Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause and one of the authors of the California redistricting laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a redistricting process dominated by majority Democrats in the Legislature would undoubtedly produce more Democrats and fewer Republicans in the state's congressional delegation, though leaders of both parties in the state Capitol opted for a map that protected incumbents in 2001, the final once-in-a-decade redrawing before the independent commission took over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some members of Congress don't want to go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Districts drawn by incumbents to protect their jobs makes politicians less accountable to their constituents,\" says Rep. Julia Brownley, a Ventura County Democrat. She and 19 other incumbents filed their own amicus brief in hopes of blocking the rollback effort by legislators in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"All eyes are on a U.S. Supreme Court case that could reinstate political maps drawn by politicians.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324556,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1213},"headData":{"title":"A Gerrymandering Comeback in California ... via Arizona? | KQED","description":"All eyes are on a U.S. Supreme Court case that could reinstate political maps drawn by politicians.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Gerrymandering Comeback in California ... via Arizona?","datePublished":"2015-01-27T17:10:16.000Z","dateModified":"2015-05-22T19:55:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10416571 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10416571","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/27/a-gerrymandering-comeback-in-california-via-arizona/","disqusTitle":"A Gerrymandering Comeback in California ... via Arizona?","customPermalink":"2015/01/26/might-gerrymandering-return-to-california-via-arizona-lawsuit/","path":"/news/10416571/a-gerrymandering-comeback-in-california-via-arizona","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Several months of quiet whispers have quickly turned into a resounding buzz -- and a nervous buzz, no less -- about a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that questions whether it's constitutional for independent state commissions to have the sole power to draw political district maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is centered on Arizona, but the buzz being heard on this side of the Colorado River arises from the fear that if a lower court's ruling is thrown out, California may very well be next in the return to partisan congressional gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Arizona litigation jeopardizes the will of the California electorate and its embrace of fair redistricting and competitive elections.'\u003ccite>Allan Zaremberg, President, California Chamber of Commerce\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It explains why everyone from legal scholars to three former California governors is asking to be heard before the nation's highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case in question is \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/arizona-state-legislature-v-arizona-independent-redistricting-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission\u003c/a>, now scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in March. And the argument being made by Arizona's legislative leaders in their quest to outlaw the state's redistricting commission is pretty simple: The U.S. Constitution, they say, vests all power over congressional elections in state legislatures -- and no one else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal fight has been brewing for a long time. Arizona voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Creation_of_a_Redistricting_Commission,_Proposition_106_(2000)\" target=\"_blank\">a ballot initiative\u003c/a> in 2000 that created an independent redistricting commission. A decade later,California voters \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_20,_Congressional_Redistricting_%282010%29\" target=\"_blank\">assigned the drawing of congressional districts\u003c/a> to a similar panel (after giving the panel \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_11,_Creation_of_the_California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission_%282008%29\" target=\"_blank\">the power to draw legislative districts\u003c/a> in 2008).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Californians Speak Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a swarm of Californians are filing \u003cem>amici curiae\u003c/em> briefs on behalf of the \u003ca href=\"http://azredistricting.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission\u003c/a>, clearly fearing that the fate of the \u003ca href=\"http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> depends on what happens in Washington, D.C., before the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California's commissioners have filed their own \u003ca href=\"http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/downloads/meeting_handouts_201501/20150123_crc_amicus_13-1314.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">amicus brief\u003c/a> in support of the Arizona panel, their fight was joined on Friday by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calchamber.com/Headlines/Pages/01262015-CalChamberFormerGovsFileAmicusBriefinArizonaRedistrictingCase.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a similar brief\u003c/a> from three former California governors -- George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Of those, Schwarzenegger has the most to lose in terms of his legacy, as he was a driving force behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-21/californias-redistricting-shake-up-shakes-out-politicians\" target=\"_blank\">the two initiatives that wrestled control of political map drawing away from the Legislature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governors were joined in their filing by the California Chamber of Commerce as well as wealthy activists \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/10/11/2729083/charles-munger-cal-poly-speaker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Munger Jr.\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://billmundell.net/2010/10/12/prop-20-fair-redistricting-empowers-dissenters/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Mundell\u003c/a> -- two big money backers of the redistricting initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's fascinating that the California cavalry is rushing in to defend its Arizona compatriots now, given that this effort to kill Arizona's redistricting commission is pretty much down to its last swing of the bat. A U.S. District Court ruled against Arizona's legislative leaders last February, and it's not exactly clear that the Supreme Court justices will even consider all of the arguments made by legislators seeking to regain their redistricting power. Perhaps, but everyone still sees the stakes as high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Arizona litigation,\" said California Chamber of Commerce President Allan Zaremberg, \"jeopardizes the will of the California electorate and its embrace of fair redistricting and competitive elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Can 'Legislate'?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the average observer, the crux of the case may be this: Is the power of Arizona voters to write legislation -- legislation written through the ballot initiative process -- equivalent to the legislative power over elections in Article I, Section IV of the Constitution:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Arizona's legislative leaders say, quite simply: no way. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV4/13-1314_appnt.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">their December filing with the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a>, they argue the above passage is crystal clear:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The term 'the Legislature' is clear and explicit and has an unambiguous meaning repeatedly recognized by the Framers and this Court: the representative lawmaking body of a State. In the Constitution, the Framers carefully assigned particular obligations to particular State-level entities, whether the 'people,' the 'legislature,' the 'executive,' or the 'State' generally. That precise division of labor leaves no doubt that they intended that 'the Legislature' -- meaning the representative lawmaking body -- be the entity that 'prescribe[s]...Regulations governing redistricting.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's worth noting that \u003ca href=\"http://azredistricting.org/About-IRC/Commissioners.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona's independent redistricting commission\u003c/a> is selected by a different process than the one in California, though Golden State activists and lawmakers may have used parts of the Arizona process to help shape the final details that were drafted in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arizona, the independent commission has five members. Four of them are chosen by the state's legislative leaders from a pool vetted by a judicial commission; the chairperson of the commission is then selected (out of the remaining applicants) by the four commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the panel is 14 members. Eight commissioners are chosen at random, from a pool of applicants vetted by the state auditor but from which each of the four legislative leaders is able to reject six names. Those eight commissioners then choose six colleagues from the remaining applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If Arizona's System Is Struck Down ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a layman's perspective, if Arizona legislators are successful in convincing the Supreme Court that they been stripped of their right to have a role in crafting congressional maps -- \u003cem>even though the Arizona system allows top lawmakers to pick four-fifths of the commission\u003c/em> -- then it would seem much easier for California's legislators, who have a much smaller role, to argue they, too, have been wronged. Remember, the entire political campaign was about stripping politicians of their power to draw congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And in case you're confused, the pending Supreme Court case is only about drawing \u003cem>congressional\u003c/em> districts, not those for Arizona's Legislature.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most states across the nation continue to have their political maps drawn by legislators -- a power that's led to countless charges of districts skewed by gerrymandering for partisan gain. And that's what supporters of independent redistricting say will happen again if the high court strips the Arizona commission of its power to craft the state's nine congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Arizona Legislature's lawsuit is just an effort to get the foxes back in the henhouse,\" said Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause and one of the authors of the California redistricting laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a redistricting process dominated by majority Democrats in the Legislature would undoubtedly produce more Democrats and fewer Republicans in the state's congressional delegation, though leaders of both parties in the state Capitol opted for a map that protected incumbents in 2001, the final once-in-a-decade redrawing before the independent commission took over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some members of Congress don't want to go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Districts drawn by incumbents to protect their jobs makes politicians less accountable to their constituents,\" says Rep. Julia Brownley, a Ventura County Democrat. She and 19 other incumbents filed their own amicus brief in hopes of blocking the rollback effort by legislators in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10416571/a-gerrymandering-comeback-in-california-via-arizona","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_332","news_17599","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_10416797","label":"news_7051"},"news_54748":{"type":"posts","id":"news_54748","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"54748","score":null,"sort":[1327686595000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-supreme-court-redistricting","title":"Court Rules Citizen Panel Senate Map Criticized by GOP Can Stand for 2012; Read the Full Decision","publishDate":1327686595,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:55 a.m.\u003c/strong> The California Supreme Court has ruled that the State Senate maps drawn by the California Citizen's Redistricting Commission can be used in the Nov. 2012 election. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/79603810/CA-Supreme-Court-Upholds-CA-Redistricting-Senate-Map\">\u003cstrong>Read the full decision here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>; it's also embedded below. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers reports on today's decision: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today's ruling is a sound rejection of critics of the independent citizens panel's political maps. After losing a bid late last year to have the state Senate districts thrown out on constitutional questions, today they lost their only other argument to block the maps for the 2012 elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case stems from a small (and unpublicized) passage inside 2010's Proposition 20, one that seems to trigger a temporary \"stay\" of the citizens panel maps in the event a ballot referendum is likely to qualify. And a GOP campaign committee has submitted enough signatures that, at this point, appear a referendum on the map will appear on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for the court appeared to be whether that GOP referendum was, in fact, \"likely\" to qualify. But in a lengthy ruling, the justices essentially said it didn't matter. They write that even if the measure qualifies, the only legally acceptable map at this juncture (candidates begin filing for office in a matter of weeks) is the Senate map drawn by the Citizens Redistricting Commission. That map has been found legally acceptable in every other examination... and thus was a strong work product that the Courts saw no reason to overturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political implications for Republicans are the ongoing story. After spending some $2 million to qualify the referendum, many believe that political process was carried out solely to try to force the commission's map (which may result in fewer GOP state senators) to be blocked in court. Now that the courts are taking a pass, it's unlikely the cash-poor GOP can raise enough money for a successful ballot measure campaign. And even if they are successful with the referendum come November, that would only mean new district lines drawn for 2014. For this year's elections -- where Democrats could conceivably capture a supermajority of the state Senate -- the citizens commission map is now fully authorized to be used.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/01/27/supremes-pass-on-blocking-redistricting-maps/\">More on this story from John Myers here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous post\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/redistricting1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/redistricting1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"redistricting\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-54773\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>10:18 a.m.\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Myers is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/KQED_CapNotes\">tweeting about the decision\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>CA Supreme Ct says CA Redistricting Commission can be used for 2012 Senate elections.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CASupCt: if the CA Redistricting referendum qualifies, then the commmission's Senate map will be used as \"interim.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All 7 justices on CA SupCt concur in allowing CA Redistricting panel's Senate map to be used for 2012. Clean sweep.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So only way CA Redistricting commission's Senate maps are nixed is if referendum qualifies for Nov & voters overturn.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Justice Goodwin Liu writes, \"The Commission map is superior to the proposed alternatives.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CA SupCt ruling seems 2 carefully say its approval of CA Redistricting commish's Senate map for 2012 is one-time deal.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>If the referendum qualifies & voters overturn the CA Redistricting Senate maps, by law the Ct would then oversee new ones.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>CA Redistricting referendum campaign mgr slams decision, likens Chief Justice Cantil-Sakayue 2 recalled chief Rose Bird.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>GOP strategist Dave Gilliard: Chief Justice applied \"flawed, politically-based precedent established by former Chief Justice Rose Bird.\"\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>Worth noting in GOP CA Redistricting campaign's anger toward Chief Justice: 6 of 7 justices appointed by GOP guvs.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>John Myers will be posting a report soon at \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/\">Capital Notes\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the decision...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"View CA Supreme Court Upholds CA Redistricting Senate Map on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/79603810/CA-Supreme-Court-Upholds-CA-Redistricting-Senate-Map\">CA Supreme Court Upholds CA Redistricting Senate Map\u003c/a>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/79603810/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-ml53zthwgef7720r05p\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1398475438,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":609},"headData":{"title":"Court Rules Citizen Panel Senate Map Criticized by GOP Can Stand for 2012; Read the Full Decision | KQED","description":"10:55 a.m. The California Supreme Court has ruled that the State Senate maps drawn by the California Citizen's Redistricting Commission can be used in the Nov. 2012 election. Read the full decision here; it's also embedded below. KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers reports on today's decision: Today's ruling is a sound rejection of critics","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Court Rules Citizen Panel Senate Map Criticized by GOP Can Stand for 2012; Read the Full Decision","datePublished":"2012-01-27T17:49:55.000Z","dateModified":"2014-04-26T01:23:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"54748 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=54748","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/27/california-supreme-court-redistricting/","disqusTitle":"Court Rules Citizen Panel Senate Map Criticized by GOP Can Stand for 2012; Read the Full Decision","path":"/news/54748/california-supreme-court-redistricting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:55 a.m.\u003c/strong> The California Supreme Court has ruled that the State Senate maps drawn by the California Citizen's Redistricting Commission can be used in the Nov. 2012 election. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/79603810/CA-Supreme-Court-Upholds-CA-Redistricting-Senate-Map\">\u003cstrong>Read the full decision here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>; it's also embedded below. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers reports on today's decision: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today's ruling is a sound rejection of critics of the independent citizens panel's political maps. After losing a bid late last year to have the state Senate districts thrown out on constitutional questions, today they lost their only other argument to block the maps for the 2012 elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case stems from a small (and unpublicized) passage inside 2010's Proposition 20, one that seems to trigger a temporary \"stay\" of the citizens panel maps in the event a ballot referendum is likely to qualify. And a GOP campaign committee has submitted enough signatures that, at this point, appear a referendum on the map will appear on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for the court appeared to be whether that GOP referendum was, in fact, \"likely\" to qualify. But in a lengthy ruling, the justices essentially said it didn't matter. They write that even if the measure qualifies, the only legally acceptable map at this juncture (candidates begin filing for office in a matter of weeks) is the Senate map drawn by the Citizens Redistricting Commission. That map has been found legally acceptable in every other examination... and thus was a strong work product that the Courts saw no reason to overturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political implications for Republicans are the ongoing story. After spending some $2 million to qualify the referendum, many believe that political process was carried out solely to try to force the commission's map (which may result in fewer GOP state senators) to be blocked in court. Now that the courts are taking a pass, it's unlikely the cash-poor GOP can raise enough money for a successful ballot measure campaign. And even if they are successful with the referendum come November, that would only mean new district lines drawn for 2014. For this year's elections -- where Democrats could conceivably capture a supermajority of the state Senate -- the citizens commission map is now fully authorized to be used.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/01/27/supremes-pass-on-blocking-redistricting-maps/\">More on this story from John Myers here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous post\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/redistricting1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/redistricting1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"redistricting\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-54773\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>10:18 a.m.\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Myers is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/KQED_CapNotes\">tweeting about the decision\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>CA Supreme Ct says CA Redistricting Commission can be used for 2012 Senate elections.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CASupCt: if the CA Redistricting referendum qualifies, then the commmission's Senate map will be used as \"interim.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All 7 justices on CA SupCt concur in allowing CA Redistricting panel's Senate map to be used for 2012. Clean sweep.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So only way CA Redistricting commission's Senate maps are nixed is if referendum qualifies for Nov & voters overturn.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Justice Goodwin Liu writes, \"The Commission map is superior to the proposed alternatives.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CA SupCt ruling seems 2 carefully say its approval of CA Redistricting commish's Senate map for 2012 is one-time deal.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>If the referendum qualifies & voters overturn the CA Redistricting Senate maps, by law the Ct would then oversee new ones.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>CA Redistricting referendum campaign mgr slams decision, likens Chief Justice Cantil-Sakayue 2 recalled chief Rose Bird.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>GOP strategist Dave Gilliard: Chief Justice applied \"flawed, politically-based precedent established by former Chief Justice Rose Bird.\"\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>Worth noting in GOP CA Redistricting campaign's anger toward Chief Justice: 6 of 7 justices appointed by GOP guvs.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>John Myers will be posting a report soon at \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/\">Capital Notes\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the decision...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"View CA Supreme Court Upholds CA Redistricting Senate Map on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/79603810/CA-Supreme-Court-Upholds-CA-Redistricting-Senate-Map\">CA Supreme Court Upholds CA Redistricting Senate Map\u003c/a>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/79603810/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-ml53zthwgef7720r05p\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/54748/california-supreme-court-redistricting","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_332"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_52575":{"type":"posts","id":"news_52575","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"52575","score":null,"sort":[1326220828000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-supreme-court-redistricting-case","title":"Today's California Supreme Court Redistricting Case Explained","publishDate":1326220828,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/redistricting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-52625\" title=\"redistricting\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/redistricting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>The California Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in \u003cem>Vandermost v. Bowen\u003c/em> , a rather complicated case related to the redistricting lines that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission drew last year, and which the state Republican Party is none too happy about. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers was at the courtroom \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/10/california-supreme-court-redistricting-case/#tweet\">\u003cstrong>tweeting\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. His blog post on today's arguments is now up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a debate inside the chambers of the state's highest court that only legal beagles and redistricting junkies would love,\" Myers writes. If either of those describes you, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/01/10/the-supreme-question-which-senate-districts-for-2012/\">\u003cstrong>click here to read on\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Myers explained what's at stake in the case:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As everyone will remember, voters stepped in and stripped the legislature of its power to draw political boundaries, first in 2008 with Prop 11 and then in 2010 with Prop 20, handing the task to an independent citizens commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those two measures there is specific language that lays out what happens if the maps are challenged in court and what happens if someone tries to overturn them by qualifying a referendum through the ballot. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where we are now: We have a group of Republicans that have filed a ballot referendum, and gathered signatures in the process of being verified and counted to see if the measure qualifies for the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the question in front of the state Supreme Court court this morning is what happens while that process is moving forward. What happens if the supporters of that referendum think it is likely to qualify for the ballot, and what happens if it actually does qualify for the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the supporters of this referendum (and a lawsuit challenging the maps as well) contend that the law now says the disputed state senate maps drawn by the independent commission cannot be used in 2012 if they're being challenged with a ballot referendum. They say the state Supreme Court would have to step in and draw their own maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants in the case are Secretary of State Deborah Bowen and the state of California through the attorney general's office. They're going to make the case that the court does not have to step in and draw new temporary maps for the state senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, this is really a fight over what political districts are drawn to elect members of the California State Senate in 2012. Will the voters be looking at districts that were drawn by the independent citizens commission or will they have to use districts that are temporary and drawn by the California Supreme Court, or possibly even the old districts, which have existed for the last 10 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, which are a Republican activist from Orange County supported by other members of the California Republican Party, believe the court has to step in and block the use of those state senate maps drawn by the independent commission. They believe that the language of Prop 20 mandates that the court step in and block the use of them, even temporarily, until the voters get to weigh in on the referendum that they hope will be on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two practical effects to this entire case: First, what happens to candidates? You've got candidates already lining up to run for the California State Senate in 2012; in some cases they have taken out the filing papers already, and they're planning to run based on where they think the district boundaries are that were set by the citizens redistricting commission. If the court intervenes, those candidates may find they no longer live in that district or that the district lines have changed in a way that they no longer want to run for office. So one practical argument you'll hear is that this process is already underway and it's too late to redraw the lines for 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think you'll see the court rule sooner rather than later, because we are getting very tight here on time in terms of elections for 2012. We already have candidates taking out filing papers and raising money, and ballot documents are being drafted in counties across California. So if those senate districts that the commission drew are going to be blocked and not used, folks are going to need to know that very soon.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"tweet\">\u003c/a>Click on the play button below to replay John Myers' tweet coverage from the court...\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=2536329891/height=550/width=470\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"470px\" height=\"550px\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>http://www.calchannel.com/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1326228392,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":753},"headData":{"title":"Today's California Supreme Court Redistricting Case Explained | KQED","description":"The California Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in Vandermost v. 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Bowen\u003c/em> , a rather complicated case related to the redistricting lines that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission drew last year, and which the state Republican Party is none too happy about. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers was at the courtroom \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/10/california-supreme-court-redistricting-case/#tweet\">\u003cstrong>tweeting\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. His blog post on today's arguments is now up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a debate inside the chambers of the state's highest court that only legal beagles and redistricting junkies would love,\" Myers writes. If either of those describes you, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/01/10/the-supreme-question-which-senate-districts-for-2012/\">\u003cstrong>click here to read on\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Myers explained what's at stake in the case:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As everyone will remember, voters stepped in and stripped the legislature of its power to draw political boundaries, first in 2008 with Prop 11 and then in 2010 with Prop 20, handing the task to an independent citizens commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those two measures there is specific language that lays out what happens if the maps are challenged in court and what happens if someone tries to overturn them by qualifying a referendum through the ballot. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where we are now: We have a group of Republicans that have filed a ballot referendum, and gathered signatures in the process of being verified and counted to see if the measure qualifies for the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the question in front of the state Supreme Court court this morning is what happens while that process is moving forward. What happens if the supporters of that referendum think it is likely to qualify for the ballot, and what happens if it actually does qualify for the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the supporters of this referendum (and a lawsuit challenging the maps as well) contend that the law now says the disputed state senate maps drawn by the independent commission cannot be used in 2012 if they're being challenged with a ballot referendum. They say the state Supreme Court would have to step in and draw their own maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants in the case are Secretary of State Deborah Bowen and the state of California through the attorney general's office. They're going to make the case that the court does not have to step in and draw new temporary maps for the state senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, this is really a fight over what political districts are drawn to elect members of the California State Senate in 2012. Will the voters be looking at districts that were drawn by the independent citizens commission or will they have to use districts that are temporary and drawn by the California Supreme Court, or possibly even the old districts, which have existed for the last 10 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, which are a Republican activist from Orange County supported by other members of the California Republican Party, believe the court has to step in and block the use of those state senate maps drawn by the independent commission. They believe that the language of Prop 20 mandates that the court step in and block the use of them, even temporarily, until the voters get to weigh in on the referendum that they hope will be on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two practical effects to this entire case: First, what happens to candidates? 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Some headlines today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://empire.wnyc.org/2011/12/californias-independent-redistricting-fiasco-a-cautionary-tale/\">California’s ‘independent’ redistricting fiasco: a cautionary tale\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/democrats-fooled-redistricting-commission.html\">Democrats Used Underhanded Tactics in Redistricting California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/12/california_redistricting_farce.php\">Did California Democrats Rig the Redistricting Process?\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/david-catanese/2011/12/gop-pushes-to-scrap-ca-map-108417.html\">ProPublica report sparks GOP outrage\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The report alleges that California Democrats bamboozled the commission, made up of 14 members of the public chosen during a lengthy process, into drawing lines that benefited the party. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Carla Marinucci of the Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/12/22/ca-redistricting-commissioner-dem-manipulation-charges-dead-wrong/\">reports\u003c/a> on one of the commissioners, Connie Galambos-Malloy of Oakland, refuting the allegations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"As a commission, we ran a very transparent process, so some of the allegations made in the story are easily disproved by a look at our website and the criteria we used,” said Connie Galambos-Malloy, one of four “decline to state” voters on the 14-member commission. “If the voters investigate, it’s clear that most of the allegations are dead wrong.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>John Myers, our Sacramento Bureau Chief who has watched the entire redistricting process from the get-go, offers his \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/12/21/the-frenzy-over-propublicas-redistricting-report/\">\u003cstrong>analysis of the ProPublica report in a Capital Notes blog post\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Here's an extract dealing with one the report's allegations: that so-called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing\">astroturf group\u003c/a>s posed as grassroots activists in order to influence the process:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ProPublica's most detailed reporting pieces together a trail of emails and actions leading from Democratic VIPs to mysterious websites to, ultimately, testimony offered in commission hearings as representative of \"community groups.\" Only the commissioners themselves can truly answer whether they were conned about the identity or backers of any particular person and/or group. It's worth noting, though, that a few weeks into the 2011 process, commission members confirmed that they were sensing patterns in public hearings of certain people who purported to be average Joes... but clearly were not. That doesn't mean that the commissioners didn't miss some key 'ringers' who showed up to plead an alleged community's case, but it does suggest that at some level the commission was savvy enough to take some of the testimony with a grain of salt.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/12/21/the-frenzy-over-propublicas-redistricting-report/\">\u003cstrong>Read Myers' entire post here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1398475444,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":375},"headData":{"title":"The Frenzy Over ProPublica's Redistricting Report | KQED","description":"Yesterday's ProPublica report provocatively titled "How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission" is -- as you might imagine -- causing quite a stir. 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Some headlines today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://empire.wnyc.org/2011/12/californias-independent-redistricting-fiasco-a-cautionary-tale/\">California’s ‘independent’ redistricting fiasco: a cautionary tale\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/democrats-fooled-redistricting-commission.html\">Democrats Used Underhanded Tactics in Redistricting California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/12/california_redistricting_farce.php\">Did California Democrats Rig the Redistricting Process?\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/david-catanese/2011/12/gop-pushes-to-scrap-ca-map-108417.html\">ProPublica report sparks GOP outrage\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The report alleges that California Democrats bamboozled the commission, made up of 14 members of the public chosen during a lengthy process, into drawing lines that benefited the party. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Carla Marinucci of the Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/12/22/ca-redistricting-commissioner-dem-manipulation-charges-dead-wrong/\">reports\u003c/a> on one of the commissioners, Connie Galambos-Malloy of Oakland, refuting the allegations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"As a commission, we ran a very transparent process, so some of the allegations made in the story are easily disproved by a look at our website and the criteria we used,” said Connie Galambos-Malloy, one of four “decline to state” voters on the 14-member commission. “If the voters investigate, it’s clear that most of the allegations are dead wrong.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>John Myers, our Sacramento Bureau Chief who has watched the entire redistricting process from the get-go, offers his \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/12/21/the-frenzy-over-propublicas-redistricting-report/\">\u003cstrong>analysis of the ProPublica report in a Capital Notes blog post\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. 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