Starting today at 9:30AM Pacific, the eight current members of the California Redistricting Commission will choose the six additional members (two of each party group) who will complete the panel. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to correctly guess who those six members will be.
The current eight are as follows:
Rose Report (http://rosereport.org/20101118/state-auditor-selects-first-8-members-of-ca-redistricting-commission/)
Democrats:
Cynthia Dai – Female, Asian-American, San Francisco, SF County
Elaine Kuo – Female, Asian-American, Mountain View, Santa Clara County
Jeanne Raya – Female, Latina, San Gabriel, LA County
Republicans:
Vincent Barabba – Male, Anglo, Capitola, Santa Cruz County (former director of U.S. Census Bureau)
Jodie Filkins Webber – Female, Asian-American, Norco, Riverside County
Peter Yao – Male, Asian-American, Claremont, LA County (city councilmember)
Other:
Stanley Forbes – Male, Anglo, Esparto, Yolo County
Connie Galambos Malloy – Female, African-American, Oakland, Alameda County
The lists of remaining members can be found at www.WeDrawtheLines.ca.gov
Here are my picks:
Gil Ontai, Rep, San Diego (only applicant left from San Diego)
Byrd Lochtie Other, Humboldt (only person from North of Sacramento)
Maria Blanco, Dem, Los Angeles (only applicant from LA City)
Teresa Espana, Other, Fresno (Central Valley)
James Vidal, Rep, Riverside
Gabino Aguirre, Dem, Ventura
And having gone through them, I doubt I’ll get more than two of them right. The combination of the leadership strikes and the lottery produced some disproportionalities that I couldn’t figure out how to overcome.