SF elections commission eyes removal of its redistricting task force appointees
San Francisco's decennial redistricting process could be headed for a chaotic breakdown, with the city's elections commission set to vote this weekend on removing its three appointees to the task force working to redraw the maps for the 11 supervisor districts.
Among them is one of the two LGBTQ community members on the task force.In the meantime, LGBTQ advocates continue to harangue the task force's current map for splitting up LGBTQ communities.
As it stood at 11 p.m. April 6, with the task force expected to remain in session late into the night, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman would be drawn out of his seat, with his residence on Valencia Street moved into District 9.At its meeting Wednesday the redistricting task force faced denunciations from irate community members throughout the city who called their decisions to date "racist," "a joke," "shocking," and potentially in violation of the law.
Leaders of both the Transgender District in the Tenderloin and the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District South of Market continued to demand their neighborhoods be kept together in the same supervisor district."The changes that are proposed to basically cut our very nascent cultural district into pieces would have an immense impact," said Angel Adeyoha, the queer and nonbinary executive director of Folsom Street, the nonprofit that puts on the city's leather and fetish street fairs.While the redistricting task force met Wednesday, the elections commission also convened and voted to hold a special session at 3 p.m.
