{"id":139,"date":"2011-06-03T17:28:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speakcityheights.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-06-05T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:00:37","slug":"the-battle-heats-up-over-new-district-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/the-battle-heats-up-over-new-district-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Heats Up Over New District Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 530px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/voiceofsandiego.org\/content\/tncms\/assets\/editorial\/0\/af\/eff\/0afeffc6-80e6-11e0-9279-001cc4c002e0-revisions\/4dd3132b89a43.image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156 \" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/voiceofsandiego.org\/content\/tncms\/assets\/editorial\/0\/af\/eff\/0afeffc6-80e6-11e0-9279-001cc4c002e0-revisions\/4dd3132b89a43.image.jpg\" alt=\"City Heights street scene\" width=\"520\" height=\"348\" align=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #444444; font-weight: normal; line-height: 10px; font-size: 9px;\">Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson<\/span><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\"> <\/span>By Adrian Florido<br \/>\nPublished May 17, 2011 on<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" title=\"logo_vosd_small\" src=\"http:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/logo_vosd_small.gif\" alt=\"Logo for voice of san diego dot org\" width=\"202\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In late February, a group of local gay and lesbian leaders gathered in Hillcrest, political power on their minds.<\/p>\n<p>They were strategizing about how to lobby the city&#8217;s Redistricting Commission to maximize their political influence as the commission reconfigures San Diego&#8217;s City Council boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>But before the leaders could propose a map, they had to answer a basic question: Which neighborhoods were most likely to vote for gay candidates?<\/p>\n<p>One thing quickly became clear. The gay community could afford to lose City Heights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/survival\/article_2891d332-80fb-11e0-8305-001cc4c002e0.html\">Click here to read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 17, 2011 on In late February, a group of local gay and lesbian leaders gathered in Hillcrest, political power on their minds. They were strategizing about how to lobby the city&#8217;s Redistricting Commission to maximize their political influence as the commission reconfigures San Diego&#8217;s City Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[63,65,62,66,42,43,18,64],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-district-3","tag-hillcrest","tag-latino","tag-lgbt","tag-redistricting","tag-representation","tag-san-diego","tag-todd-gloria"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Battle Heats Up Over New District Lines - Speak City Heights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/the-battle-heats-up-over-new-district-lines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Battle Heats Up Over New District Lines - Speak City Heights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 17, 2011 on In late February, a group of local gay and lesbian leaders gathered in Hillcrest, political power on their minds. 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