By Patric Hedlund, TME

Connie Baldin of Pine Mountain Club was confused by news reports last week. Three members of the Kern County Board of Supervisors were in secret sessions to redraw the county’s supervisorial districts.

These secret negotiations changed the boundaries of David Couch’s District 4 to include Lamont, Arvin, McFarland, Delano, Wasco, Shafter, Lost Hills and Buttonwillow, plopping the Frazier Mountain Communities into Zack Scrivner’s district.

Why did they do that?

Kern County lost a lawsuit last month. A U.S. district court judge…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Whether you agreed or disagreed with him, you always knew
District 4 Supervisor David Couch would show up to argue
his position.

In a demonstration of raw politics, District 4 has been carved up. The Mountain Communities are now part of Zack Scrivner’s District 2.

Exhibit A — New Kern County settlement agreement map shows that District 2 now includes the Frazier Mountain Communities (including Tejon Ranch)—all formerly in District 4

Approximate footprint of the Mountain Communities, now swept into Zack Scrivner’s District #2

New District #4

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This is part of the April 6, 2018 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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