On Monday, the new legislative district maps for California approved the citizens redistricting Commission. The cards for the time being last month approved, no changes were made. A complaint and/or ballot could be used referendum, to put the cards in question.
The Commission approved the State Senate, Assembly and Board of equalization cards by a vote of No 13-1. The lone opponent was Anaheim chiropractor Michael Ward, a Republican. Other Republican Jodie Filkins Webber, a lawyer from Riverside County, joined ward as the only other person against the show for the U.S. House of representatives districts.
The Commission was created after voters passed proposition 11, the first act voters in 2008. There are five Democrats, five Republicans and four members who refuse, to specify a party preference. The members are from different ethnic backgrounds and life in various parts of California. She held a series of public hearings throughout the State and thousands of written submissions received. Previously, districts of legislators created, and what they came up with was a manipulated mess, designed to ensure that the incumbent could be re-elected.
"The Commission is following the Constitution and the interests of all Californians in creating districts which we believe are justified and useful, balanced believe", Commission said Chair Vincent p. bar Abbadia, a Republican businessman from Santa Cruz County, at a press conference after the vote on Monday.
Ward sang a different tune. He said the cards "fundamentally were broken as a result of a tainted political process" and that the Commission "broke the law" ignore the federal voting rights act and decisions "based on political motives."
"This Commission was the citizen of smoke - filled room where average Commissioners in table offers and partisan gerrymandering, the very issues that the Commission should be to prevent" Ward said.
By a member of the press asked what he meant with "Dinner Table Deals", said his statement ward "stand alone."
Ward said the new Congress in a democratic party-dominated zone that while out on the land side in parts to the recognition of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, and Beverly Hills, encounter was extends, along the coast between this Malibu and Rancho Palos Verdes "Ribbon district of shame". He cited several other districts that creative has been designed for political purposes.
Ward said that he referendum, the cards challenge would participate in any action or ballot. A California Republican Party spokesman said that a Los Angeles Times on Monday that the party would probably not file suit and that it probably would make a decision later this week about whether to pursue a referendum ballot.
Following Ward's comments bar Abbadia said, "the feeling that I get is that Commissioner Ward different sessions part, when I did, or at least they looked different."
Click here for more information about the approved cards to our previous story on the final draft.
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