HomeMy WebLinkAbout11.29.21 FW_ Butte County Redistricting Comment
From:Ring, Brian
To:BOS
Subject:FW: Butte County Redistricting Comment
Date:Monday, November 29, 2021 8:19:30 AM
Attachments:Redistricting Comment.pdf
Good morning Board – please find another comment submitted via the Redistricting website.
Brian Ring
Assistant Chief Administrative Officer
Administration
25 County Center Drive, Oroville, CA 95965
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Sent: Monday, November 29, 2021 8:13 AM
To: Ring, Brian <bring@buttecounty.net>; buttecounty@redistrictingpartners.com
Subject: Butte County Redistricting Comment
Greetings,
A Comment has been received for Redistricting. If any line is blank, that information was not
entered by the Submitter.
First Name: Bryce
Last Name: Goldstein
Email:
Phone:
Comment: Meeting: Board of Supervisors Special Meeting
Item: 3.01 Butte County 2021 Redistricting Draft Maps
eComment: I have spent many hours attempting to draw maps that comply with the long and
ever-growing list of directions from Supervisors Connelly, Teeter, and Kimmelshue. It's
nearly impossible, if not impossible, to meet all these demands while complying with the
FAIR MAPS Act. Unfortunately, this seems to be the point. By continuously adding demands
for lines to be drawn a certain way, the majority supervisors are intentionally making it appear
necessary to divide up the cities of Chico and Oroville more than is fair or actually necessary.
The purpose of this action is to evade the FAIR MAPS Act criteria that to the extent
practicable communities and cities shall be kept undivided. The goal is to crack Chico's
majority-liberal voters into four districts instead of three, so that right-wing incumbents living
outside of the City have an extremely high chance of maintaining power over at least half of
those districts. In reality, no matter how much the supervisorial majority says that agricultural
land needs two districts (note: people vote in this country, not land) or that school districts and
other irrelevant boundaries are more important than actual communities of interest, their
wishlist does not outweigh the law. Thank you to Supervisors Lucero and Ritter for their
efforts to keep this process transparent and fair. Shame on the other three supervisors for
manipulating this process for partisan gain. We need to approve one of the demographer's fair
and equitable maps that incorporates communities of interest testimony, such as A6. Moving
forward, we need to prevent gerrymandering from ever happening again in our County, by any
party. We should start by establishing a nonpartisan citizens' redistricting commission.
Thank you,
Butte County