Get your comment engines running! Officially the full maps were supposed to be released today at 9AM, however, it seems the drafts now available lack district numbers. For the Assembly, this really doesn’t matter so much, but for the Senate, that is a big deal. You could end up with a bunch of Senators sitting out 2012-2014 and then hopping back. You see Senators will serve the full four years of their term, even if there district and the corresponding number varies wildly.
So, take a look, and let’s see what we have here…
UPDATE: The Bee did a little counting for us, and they’ve posted the resulting maps showing which districts lean Dem or Republican. You can find those here. Going just by registration, there are 29 districts in the State Senate with a 20K advantage to Democrats. Of course, that demands that Dems win elections where they have previously lost, most noticeably in the area that is now Sam Blakeslee’s district.
Update 2: The Washington Post has an interesting analysis of the Congresional map showing a 3 to 5 seat gain for Democrats. This is more a result of unwinding the weird districts from 2001 than population shifts, but if we can pick up a few seats to make up for Texas that’s a good thing.
Lucas also has a good review of the San Diego aspects of the new maps at TwoCathedrals.
they’re off!
Given the likelihood of litigation, I’m not going to comment much on them, but I will say that I like that Santa Ana is not to be connected to Newport Beach.
About the Fountain Valley-through-Garden-Grove-and-Westminster-to-Cerritos Assembly District, though — wouldn’t it have been easier just to make a district to which all Asians will belong regardless of where they live? That community-of-interest tail sure did wag the dog here.
This http://c365736.r36.cf2.rackcdn… district – combining santa rosa and its suburbs with a wide swathe of the northern central valley – is just bizarre.
So why does extreme south Orange County get lumped with coastal San Diego county? We have almost nothing in common with them in terms of concerns. Maybe they needed to dilute the increasing Latino/Democratic vote around here?
Of course, we didn’t have much in common with the Inland Empire either, so getting rid of that ridiculous map is a plus.
Tell me they just put Adam Schiff and David Dreier in the same district!
Rohrabacher’s toast now that he has to run against Campbell.
I’ve not been following the details of the CRC’s debates, so does anyone know what the logic is in stripping Davis away from its historical Assembly link with the rest of Yolo and northern Solano County, and tying it to Sacramento, while the “old 8th” now has to hunt for voters in Galt and Lodi? Were this the good old days, I’d say it smells suspiciously like a gerrymander of some sort.
Not to mention the utter illogic of a Senate district that sprawls from Santa Rosa to Lodi. The community of interest there would be what? They’re both in California?
But at least it looks like I’ve rejoined my actual county of residence at the state level.