Three on Redistricting Panel

From Asian Week,

Marily Mondejar

Pays to Have an Asian Mayor: After the SF Department of Elections shutout Asian Pacific Americans from the crucial SF Redistricting Task Force, Mayor Ed Lee made it up last Friday by appointing Myong Leigh, SF Unified School District Deputy Superintendent, and Marily Mondejar, Filipina Women’s Network president. The nine-member panel oversees the equitable redistribution of residents for the city’s 11 supervisor districts after the 2010 US Census. The outcome could be supervisor districts that could increase or decrease APA representation, comprising more than one-third of SF residents. The task force will need to consider past political gerrymandering like the dilution 10-years ago shifting APA Portola residents into Supervisor David Campos’ heavily Latino District 9 (Mission) from the emerging APA District 10 (Bayview/Visitacion Valley) represented by Malia Cohen or the heavily APA District 11 (Ingleside/Outer Mission) seat held by John Avalos. In its three appointments last June, the SF Board of Supervisors selected Jenny Lam of Chinese for Affirmative Action to the panel that will determine political boundaries for the next ten years…