That's both a relief -- as it restores my staunch faith in the efficiency and honesty of my election clerk (Gail Pellerin!) but also a disappointment, because John Laird is ours, and also makes me feel dumb because I should have known that and in previous times I would have.
We are gerrymandered all out of existence. Instead of making the Monterey Bay a unit, as it ought to be, they've carved Santa Cruz County up and thrown the part with UCSC in with Palo Alto of all places and the part with farms in with San Luis Obispo. Since Santa Cruz is one of the smallest counties in the state (depending on how you measure it), and also a county with an actual geographic identity (yes, there are a lot of differences throughout the county but the local identity is stronger -- ask somebody from Watsonville where they're from and they'll say "Santa Cruz" and then they'll say "Watsonville") it doesn't make real sense to divide us up like that, except to neutralize us.
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We are gerrymandered all out of existence. Instead of making the Monterey Bay a unit, as it ought to be, they've carved Santa Cruz County up and thrown the part with UCSC in with Palo Alto of all places and the part with farms in with San Luis Obispo. Since Santa Cruz is one of the smallest counties in the state (depending on how you measure it), and also a county with an actual geographic identity (yes, there are a lot of differences throughout the county but the local identity is stronger -- ask somebody from Watsonville where they're from and they'll say "Santa Cruz" and then they'll say "Watsonville") it doesn't make real sense to divide us up like that, except to neutralize us.