[CounterCounterCulture]

For your perusal. Check out your areas of interest and report back, positive or negative or indifferent, how the maps look. You can also provide feedback as indicated in the body text above.

[Liz]

ping

[newzjunkey]

I sit on the edge of district lines. At first look, those draft maps couldn't be more useless to me. There's insufficient context to tell where the shifts are.

The commission must not be able to afford spell check. "Introduction," page two, "VOTING RIGHS ACT."

The "Narrative" link returns a 404. Typical.

[Mariner]

First glance shows less gerrymandering.

Not that it really matters.

Generally the GOP doesn't deserve votes in CA...Arnold...Whitman etc.

Of course we also have McClintock...a star.

Oh well.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I didn’t see anything too cartographically obscene in the Bay Area / Central Coast / Northwest California areas.

My areas of concern:

The old State Senate District 15 (currently Sam Blakeslee, formerly Abel Maldonado) still stretches from southern Santa Clara County and goes down to Santa Maria.

Santa Rosa in the state senate and corresponding assembly district is being thrown into the north/east bay instead of being in the north coast, where another chunk of area (such as Lake County and American Canyon) could have gone instead.

But overall for the areas I viewed seems to be an improvement over the last redrawing.

I’m looking for more feedback to see if there are other areas of concern.

And keep in mind there will be public hearings on these first draft. MALDEF and other special interests very much attend these meetings, so do try to attend your local hearing.

[Carry_Okie]

Not much different for me other than the Congressional district. I won’t have Anna Eschoo any more. We’ll see.

[SierraWasp]

Ping...

[Amerigomag]

Same old gerrymandering. Same old BS.

When I see a map of Assembly districts whose shape mimics a rectangle, whose boundaries are generally horizontal or vertical, whose boundaries ignore existing political subdivisions (counties, cities, existing tax districts, etc.), then I've seen an embodiment of the spirit of the law.

Until then, it matters not if the whores are in the California Assembly or on a California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I’ve been removed from Becerra and given to Waxman. I guess it’s better that the devil is ugly.