Poplar – When the conversation turned to politics at the OK Corral bar in the historic stage town Tuesday night, retired nurse Ovie Hays, 77, spoke in most rooms when she summed up Governor Gavin Newsom’s re-division plan.
“I don’t want the Democrats around me,” she said. “They’re going too far in controlling us. We won’t speak out.”
Nearby, a man in naughty cowboy boots agreed with Hays’s consent – using more colorful language. He acted as a rancher and said he was only coming from repairing goat pens.
“The idiot in charge, and [those] The responsible idiots need to know where their food comes from. “He said. He refused to see his name printed, just like many people in Shasta County and neighboring counties.
In its current form, California’s first congressional district swept almost southward from the Oregon border to Sacramento, larger than Massachusetts or Maryland or eight other states.
This is a farm and forest country. From the glittering peaks and dense forests of Mount Shasta and Sierra Nevada, the river routes all the way to the valley floors, to the wide range of rice, endless peaches and golden orchards, rolling meadows, rolling grasslands, filled with more cattle than people. Given the lim destruction of the timber industry in recent years, the wood industry here has swept the area, so voters here are involved in policies that affect their water supply and forests.
This is also a Republican country. For the past 12 years, the region has been represented by Congressman Doug Lamalfa, a rice farmer in Oroville and a staunch supporter of Donald Trump.
At a Chico Town Hall meeting, attendees raised a red card to show their views on Rep. Doug Lamalfa’s statement.
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But if voters approve the November redistricting plan, the crimson fortress in the Lamalfa area will be divided into three pieces, each diluted with enough democratic vote to make them all blue. The northern half of the area will join a coastal area that will extend all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge, while the southern half will insert two areas that will attract voters from the Bay Area and wine countryside.
Northern California is in this situation because of President Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott, Newsom and others who have released power. To ensure Republican control over the House, Trump put pressure on Abbott to re-list Texas’ congressional map so Republicans can sit in more seats. Newsom’s response was threatening to remake California’s map to favor Democrats, while saying he would be shave if Texas did the same.
The California Legislature is expected to approve a plan Thursday that will place a new map in November’s vote, along with an AA constitutional amendment that will cover the state’s voter-approved independent redivision committee. If voters approve new maps, they will only take effect if another state has undergone a decade of redivision. Under the proposal, Democrats can take over five seats that Republicans currently own, while also strengthening some of the fragile Democratic incumbents in the Purple area.
Now, voters in Northern California and other parts of the state find themselves at the center of a showdown.
Marysville’s silver dollar sedan is part of Northern California, and many voters say California cities don’t understand the needs of rural California.
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From Marysville to Redding, many people (including self-proclaimed Democrats) say they are angry at another example they think is the will of the California city, imposing its will on rural California areas, areas that urban people generally ignore and don’t understand.
Pamela Davis, 40, said: “Their needs and needs are completely different from what we need here. Her children scramble to sit in their car seats and happily talk about their cattle and ducks at home.
Davis said she voted for Lamarfa, saying voters in California cities are not aware of water regulations or other policies that are crucial to agriculture, even though what is happening in agricultural areas is crucial to the country as a whole.
“We’re here to grow food for everyone,” she said. “Water has always been a problem. This kind of thing needs to stand out in everyone’s mind.”
For many years, people in the so-called Northern State have fallen into life under the rule of liberal politicians in California. The area is whiter, more rural, more conservative and poorer than the rest of the state. They have long complained about their property rights, grazing rights and water rights being besieged. They complain that the state’s high taxes and cost of living are destroying people’s dreams. The complaints are so deep that in recent years, many residents have embraced the idea of deviating from California for decades and formed the “Jefferson State.”
In the Riviera Mobile Manor Community in Anderson, California, the “Jefferson State” flags fly with stars and stripes.
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Some residents, including Lamalfa, say it could further exacerbate these sentiments if they were to be re-divided. Some voters even said they hated Trump and Lamarfa and planned to vote for the rezoning plan, fearing diluting the precedent for rural voting.
Gail Mandaville, 76, sat in Chico with her book group and said she favored the plan. “I’m really scared of the development of the country,” the retired teacher said. “I appreciate the news because I stand up and do something.”
Kim Heuckel, 58, said on the table that she agreed, but also wondered if MPs from more downtown could correctly represent the needs of her area. “I’m sorry, but they don’t know about the farmland,” she said. “We need our farmers.”
We were in trouble with Rebecca Willi, 74, a retired hospice worker, but “everything we represent is in trouble” and if the rezoning of Texas continues, “we have to replace it because there are so many jeopardies.”
Lamalfa predicted in an interview that California voters will refuse to re-divid the plan. “We won’t go anywhere without fighting,” he said.
But if it passes, he predicts his constituents will suffer. “We don’t have the values of Sausalito in this area,” he said, adding that politicians in the newly redemarcated area will “play with Bay Area voters; they won’t play with us at all.”
He noted that one of the biggest problems in his area has been paying attention to wolves lately, who have been roaming the ranch, killing cattle, angry ranchers and other property owners. He said, “If you don’t send the dog, it will go to the wolf.”
