This weekend’s Mother Lode Views will feature District 8 Republican Assemblyman David Tangipa. He is among a group of lawmakers who filed a lawsuit contesting Proposition 50, a Congressional redistricting initiative approved by voters on Tuesday. Read More

Elex Michaelson speaks with California state assemblymember David Tangipa, who is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Prop 50. Read More

In a fresh twist the morning after the election, the California Republican Party, Assemblyman David Tangipa and 18 California voters filed a federal lawsuit Nov. 5 to challenge Prop 50, alleging it unconstitutionally gerrymanders districts in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments. Read More

But the lawsuit – whose plaintiffs include Fresno County Assemblymember David Tangipa, the California Republican Party and a handful of individual voters – claims the map-makers improperly used race as a factor to favor Hispanic voters “without cause or evidence to justify it.” The lawsuit claims the maps violate the…

State Assemblyman David Tangipa is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit (Tangipa v. Newsom) alleging that new congressional maps established by Proposition 50 constitute a racial gerrymander. Tangipa’s 8th Assembly District covers Inyo and Mono counties, as well as Calaveras, Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, and Tuolumne counties. Read More