Here is some good news about State Senate redistricting from CRP Chairman Tom DelBeccaro:

Good news! We passed another important milestone!

As you know, the California Republican Party supported the referendum to have the Senate district lines drawn in a fair fashion. We supported that referendum because we do not believe that the Citizen Commission acted fairly in the way they conducted business in general and in the way they drew the lines in specific.

The CRP was not the only one skeptical of the Commission. Recently, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative team at ProPublica cast a highly critical shadow over the way the Democrats gamed the system to their advantage with respect to the congressional districts. We also know that the recipients of donations from at least one Democrat Commissioner benefitted from the lines that were drawn.

Supporting the referendum was the right thing to do under all of the circumstances.

Today I am pleased to report that based on the total number signatures and the quality of the signature gathering - in which CRP volunteers played a key role - the referendum surpassed a key hurdle. Because the random sampling is indicating that we have sufficient signatures to qualify the Referendum for the November ballot, the State is now required to count all of the signatures to confirm the measure.