Interim Chair, California Citizens Redistricting Commission
Interim Chairman of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission; Outgoing Republican Councilman in the City of Claremont and a retired engineer
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Peter Yao
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FROM Peter Yao
Which Way, L.A.?
Nonpartisan Goals and Political Expectations Elections are supposed to be competitive between political parties, but consider this. In the past 10 years in California, just one out of 53 congressional seats has changed hands, only six of 80 Assembly seats and no seats in the State Senate. That's because the state legislature drew district boundaries to preserve the status quo. Voters decided they'd had enough, and created a citizens commission to draw new lines using the data from this year's census. Eight of 14 commission members have been chosen by a complex process administered by the State Auditor — four Asian Americans, two whites, one Latino and one African American.
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