1: successor to the original attempt at a Bay Area "whites in 4th place" district. Centered on southern Alameda county (Fremont), also contains parts of Milpitas in Santa Clara County. 2: SF-based district, contains almost all of the city except for the Richmond District and parts facing the Pacific 3: most of San Mateo County and the rest of SF proper. Stops at the Santa Clara County border and at Half Moon Bay 4: northern East Bay: Based on Contra Costa and northermost Alameda. Contains all of Berkeley, Richmond, Vallejo, and Walnut Creek 5: southern "exurban" Bay Area- rest of San Mateo, all of Santa Cruz, Palo Alto and Mountain View in Santa Clara, and Santa Clara "rurals" bordering Santa Cruz. 6: San Jose "AAPI opportunity district 1"- centered on Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and the upscale western portion of San Jose proper7: 7: San Jose "AAPI opportunity district 2"- the rest of Santa Clara 8: Oakland based district, contains rest of Alameda County 9: rest of Contra Costa County + adjoining parts of Alameda County and part of San Joaquin up to the western 1/3rd of Stockton
Sacramento-
32: remainder of Stockton + eastern Sacramento County (e.g. Folsom) + farmland in between 33: westernmost Sacramento West Sacramento + southern Sacramento suburbs (Elk Grove + all of Yolo County + half of Solano County up to Vacaville 34: most of Sacramento proper + immediately adjacent northern and eastern suburbs 35: Placer County Sacramento exurbs + all of El Dorado & Nevada Counties + part of Amador County 36: rest of Northern Central Valley + far Northeast CA + rest of Placer County 37: southwest half of Solano County + all of Napa County + parts of Somona and Mendocino Counties + all of Lake, Trinity, and Siskyou Counties. "Inland" Safe D district 38: all of Marin County + rest of Sonoma and Mendocino + rest of North Coastal
San Joaquin Valley + Central Coast
39: Modesto-centered Central Valley district. Contains 2/3 of Stanislaus + southern 1/3 of San Joaquin and Central Valley parts of Calaveras and Amador 40: Central Valley District south of 39. Rest of Stanislaus, all of Merced, the bulk of Madera's population, and western Fresno metro area 41: Most of Fresno area + all of Central Sierras + all of Mono County 42: all of Tulare County + adjoining Central Valley farmland in other counties + all of Inyo County 43: Central Kern County containing all of the Bakersfield area 44: Monterrey County-centered district + rest of the Central Coast Range (much of San Luis Obispo County) + westernmost Central Valley
https://twitter.com/SheehyforMT/status/1788651505568100812 In addition, Tester is now co sponsoring the Laken Riley Act several weeks after his vote against that bill and his vote to kill the Mayorkas Impeachment articles. No wonder that Tim Sheehy is leading him in polls. Jon Tester goes wherever the wind blows
That’s horrible, no ifs, ands, or buts. It’s objectively not genocide, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a horrific act. And you can’t even argue that Israel was targeting such high-ranking Hamas officials that it was worth the risk or whatever. These were not top guys. This strike never should’ve been launched.
According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the area hit is a designated "safe zone".
This isn't the first time that Israel has hit a "safe zone" either.
Time to reconsider the "objectively not genocide" part.
That’s not genocide. A war crime? Quite possibly, but not genocide. Words have meaning.
What's the American equivalent of withdrawing the whip? Is there one? It's been well over a decade since I've bothered with Congressional procedure, so I've forgotten a lot of the little technicalities. In most countries there would be no need to ask, but Americans are so odd about anything to do with parties and groups.
It’s simply not available as congressional nominees are determined by primaries .
That's a candidate selection issue which is different. I meant expelling or suspending from the caucus, as this would definitely cross the threshold for that literally anywhere else.
The closest thing would be stripping her of her committee spots which would only be possible with Republican support to get a majority of the House. She could be barred from them next session however. There was a push to do this to Joe Lieberman after 2006 but the Senate caucus voted it down.
It's relatively easy to draw a congressional district where whites are the 4th largest racial group. I'm curious how far this can go, though. So, a challenge: Draw a relatively compact congressional district where three minority groups all have at least 28% of the population by CVAP. Can you hit 29%? 30%???
Alternative: Draw a congressional district where whites are in 4th place, and they trail the racial group that's in 3rd place by at least 18%. How large can one make this difference?
It's hard not only because so much of LA County is majority/plurality Mexican, but also because the various Asian-heavy suburbs are far from each other and tend to have a lot of White and/or Latino residents. Long Beach having a lot of super-diverse precincts doesn't help when you're trying to draw a district that's <10% White haha.
I have an Alhambra + Arcadia centered Chinese district (#11), with the (East) Asian-heavy area near the borders with Orange and San Bernardino Counties split among a Downey-Hacienda Heights district (#50), a Covina-Pomona-Chino Hills [SB] district (#48), and the alternate version of Young Kim's district that stretches down to Irvine [Orange] (#12) in my SoCal D gerrymander/“whites in 4th place district with 2020 data” map. I love how DRA has a racial dots feature now with both VAP and general population options.
Did a more "legit" version of my 2021 CA redistricting based on the above PG&D thread, but with no explicit intention to gerrymander outside of Orange County. I tried to align CD boundaries with county and municipal borders as much as possible. I also tried to center some of the Bay Area and SoCal districts around distinct Asian communities of a certain size (e.g. the ethnic Chinese of the San Gabriel Valley, NW Orange County's Little Saigon, the "PMC" and "Blue Collar" Asian cores of Santa Clara County) https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::77d4af56-7dcd-4b85-9c0c-480412498c4b
