Amador County – Draft California redistricting maps in flux look to make some changes for Amador County representation, including placing Amador in a “Foothills” U.S. Congressional district apart from Sacramento, as well as in Foothill districts for state representation.

California Citizens Redistricting Commission Director of Communications Rob Wilcox said the “current interactive visualization” allows people to see the new maps as they come about. The Redistricting Commission met Thursday for a 6-hour work on the redistricting. Before that, the maps showed a prospective Congressional change in District 3, which U.S. Congressman Dan Lungren represents, and has led to Assemblywoman Alyson Huber admitting in various reports that she is contemplating a run in 2012 for Congress, against Lungren.

The first draft map showed a Congressional district made up of only Sacramento, and a “Foothills District,” which appears to take portions of Congressional districts 5, 3, 19 and 21, all in the Foothills. It does keep part of Sacramento County, and appears to include part of El Dorado County in District 5, as well as Amador, Calaveras and Alpine Counties in District 3. Part of the “Foothills District” appears to include part of Congressional District 19 southeast of Calaveras, including Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera Counties. The Foothill District also appears to reach south into, and include Fresno and Tulare Counties.

State Assembly District 10 redrawing also looks to remove and place Amador County with central and Foothill counties of Placer, El Dorado, Alpine, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin, and exclude Sacramento.

State Senate District 1 is redrawn to include more Northern California counties, and it removes Amador from that district. Amador County is placed again with Foothill counties, of Placer, El Dorado, Alpine, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Madera and Fresno Counties.

The Commission on July 13 launched what it called “an unprecedented interactive process where the public” can “view district visualizations online and submit written public comment in real time as the Commission meets.”

Commissioners “referred to the comment that they were receiving online during the meetings,” and encouraged the public to continue the interaction.

The Commission met July 15-16 for line drawing sessions for Northern and Southern California. It will release final district maps on or before Aug. 1, and vote on ratifying the maps Aug. 15.

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