Commentary: They worked hard to draw fair political maps. How do they feel about Newsom undoing them?

Members of California’s voter-created redistricting commission differ over an attempted gerrymander.

They share a deep pride in their even-handedness, which took more than a year of effort.

For Patricia Sinay, one of the highlights of her life was serving on the California Citizens Redistricting Commission , which spent well over a year painstakingly plotting out the state’s political boundaries.

“I got to witness democracy at its core,” said Sinay, 58, who lives in Encinitas and works as a consultant in the world of nonprofits.

“There were 14 very diverse people who came at this work from different backgrounds,” she said. “Some may have known more than others about redistricting. But by the end we were all experts and focused on the same thing, which was creating fair maps for the p