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It’s “Friday Night at the French Laundry,” the weekly radio broadcast run by leaders of the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Bianca is calling to offer herself as living proof that the campaign isn’t all about white guys from the state’s deep-red hinterlands. She tells the KABC-AM call-in audience that she’s a San Franciscan and a “Berniecrat,” proudly adding, “This is a bipartisan thing.”
But Bianca’s message of a diverse anti-Newsom alliance is soon overtaken by a grab bag of other complaints. She wallops the media for giving short shrift to the Mars rover landing and declares that hate crime laws must be stopped because they are “the cornerstone of fascism.” She’s followed by Glenn from Simi Valley, who invokes a QAnon-style theory about COVID-19 vaccines being a pretext for “surveillance, control and monitoring … of citizens throughout the world,” a claim that goes unrebutted by the radio hosts.
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California losing a House seat for the first time in history could spark political tumult as incumbent Democrats and a few Republicans jockey to survive the decennial redrawing of congressional boundaries by the state’s independent redistricting commission.
Democrat-held congressional districts in and around Los Angeles County are most endangered, party insiders say, threatening to end the careers of veteran Reps. Alan Lowenthal, Grace Napolitano, Lucille Roybal-Allard, and Maxine Waters, who range in age from 79 to 84. California’s 15-member Citizens Redistricting Commission, divided equally among Democrats, Republicans, and independents, is prohibited from drawing maps that benefit or disadvantage any particular politician. But redistricting observers believe such an outcome is likely.