SF Politics Federal Court Hearings Start Today For Republican Attempt to Overturn Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 Redistricting After voters overwhelmingly approved Gavin Newsom’s redistricting ballot measure last month, Republicans are looking for a do-over in court to halt the new maps, as the GOP fears a blowout in the 2026 midterm elections.
SF Politics Republicans Sue to Try to Stop Prop 50 From Taking Effect The same Republican Party that was all for disenfranchising Democratic voters and people of color in Texas are asking a federal court in California to declare the proposed new California congressional districts under Prop 50 unconstitutional.
SF Politics Trump Already Claiming Today’s Prop 50 Vote Is Rigged, Threatening Lawsuit The polls have not yet even closed on California’s Prop 50 redistricting measure, but Trump is already insisting that the vote is “rigged,” which means he knows Prop 50 is going to win by a landslide and is looking for excuses.
SF Politics Now California Will Bring In State Election Monitors to Monitor Trump’s Federal Election Monitors The Trump administration has already declared they’re sending election monitors to California for next week’s Prop 50 vote. But the Gavin Newsom administration just announced they’ll have their own monitors to monitor Trump’s monitors.
SF News Saturday Links: South Bay Police Chief Suspected of Commuting From Idaho An ophthalmology professor from Stanford University created a device that helps people with vision loss read again; Newsom signed a bill calling for a state commission on the inclusion of trans athletes in competitive sports; and the Millbrae police chief is suspected of commuting from Idaho.
SF Politics CA Redistricting Measure on Track to Be One of the Most Expensive Proposition Fights In State History The battle over Gavin Newsom's stick-it-to-Republicans ballot measure, Prop 50, which would temporarily redraw California's congressional district map for the next five years, is heating up in its final month, and it is looking very expensive.
SF Politics California Republicans Already Spending Millions on Mailers to Fight Newsom’s Redistricting Ballot Measure Your mailbox may already be crammed with mailers from Republicans on a warpath against Gavin Newsom’s California redistricting measure, even though Newsom’s campaign is only five days old.
SF News Saturday Links: Draft of California Redistricting Map Released, GOP Seats Nearly Cut in Half More than 100,000 travelers are stranded worldwide as Air Canada flight attendants have gone on strike; a crow in Walnut Creek tested positive for West Nile virus Friday; and California released a draft of a new proposed redistricting map.
SF Politics Newsom Rallies for Redistricting, But Border Patrol Agents Show Up to Harass Crowd Governor Gavin Newsom gave a fiery speech Thursday to launch his campaign for a November ballot measure to redistrict the state, just like Texas is doing for Trump. But US Border Patrol agents showed up outside the rally to bully people.
SF Politics San Francisco’s New Supervisor Districts Finally Approved by Redistricting Task Force The Tenderloin will be removed from District 6, Potrero Hill will remain in District 10, and Supervisor Mandelman will not be drawn out of his District 8 under a finally approved “final draft map” from a wildly contentious SF redistricting process.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Will Blow Off Its Deadline and Keep Redistricting, Amidst Charges of Mayor Breed Tampering A redistricting process that had gone off the rails rhetorically has now gone off its legal rails too, as its task force votes to defy mandatory deadlines, and allegations swirl that Mayor Breed has been tampering.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Submits ‘Draft Final Map’ After High Drama, Twitter Fights, and Half the Task Force Walking Out A bonkers weekend of redistricting fireworks saw profane Twitter fights between supervisors, and four members storming out of a late night meeting in protest, but the map’s final draft is now complete.
SF Politics SF Redistricting Devolves Into Chaos, Now Three Members of Task Force May Be Removed The SF Redistricting Task Force kept redrawing supervisor districts in another raucous meeting that went ‘til nearly 3:30 Thursday morning, but now three members of the commission might be kicked off, and mind you this three days before their deadline.
SF Politics Latest Proposed SF Redistricting Map Still Drawing Ire of LGBTQ Activists Supervisor Mandelman would be drawn out of his own district, while the Leather/LGBTQ and Transgender Cultural Districts would be split into different supervisor districts, under the latest revised supervisor district map that’s still creating controversy.
SF Politics New Proposed Board of Supervisors District Map Is Out, and Everyone Thinks It’s an Abomination The proposed redistricting of the SF Board of Supervisors map has been released, and early reviews from current and former supervisors describe it as ‘horrifying,’ ‘a joke,’ and ‘on crack.’
SF Politics New State Assembly District Redraws Are In, Committee Scraps 'Majority-White' AD-17 Map The final redistricting maps are in, and the assembly district David Campos and Matt Haney are running for is slightly reconfigured, but not as whitewashed as originally proposed.
SF Politics SF’s Proposed New State Assembly Map Draws Flak for Creating White-Majority District One of the many quirks of the proposed SF state assembly district boundaries is that if David Campos won his assembly race, he would not even live in the district he represents.
SF News Census Data Release Shows US and California Growing More Diverse — and San Francisco Gained 90,000 People The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday released a new batch of data from the 2020 Census to be used for the purposes of congressional redistricting, and it contains the first data on race and ethnicity to be released so far.
Arts & Entertainment Speak Out, S.F.: Redistricting Task Force Community Meeting Thursday We received this handy-dandy map under the heading, "Speak Out, San Francisco!" in our inbox yesterday outlining the Redistricting Task Force's current proposed new boundaries of San Francisco’s 11 supervisorial districts. (View
SF News Redistricting Could Force Supervisors To Actually Live In The Neighborhoods They Represent As San Francisco redraws the borders of the neighborhood districts represented by our 11 city supervisors, a few members of the Board might want to start trawling Craigslist for new apartments. David Chiu,
