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Redistricting reform and the gerrymandered Jewish legislator

By Daniel Treiman · June 22, 2011

As was widely reported last week, California’s new redistricting proposal seems likely to lead to a showdown between two veteran Jewish lawmakers: Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman. The two incumbent San Fernando Valley Democrats would be tossed together into a single congressional district by the more rational, draft map drawn up by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.


While the commission may still make adjustments before the release of a final map in August, if a Berman-Sherman match-up does materialize for 2012, Capitol Hill would end up losing a prominent pro-Israel voice. But Berman and Sherman likely won’t be the last Jewish members of Congress to have their political worlds shaken up by the current wave of redistricting reform.



Congressional districts that wander wildly across the landscape are the products, variously, of partisan scheming, efforts to give incumbents safe seats and attempts to carve out districts likely to elect legislators from racial minority groups. Reformers want to encourage more competitive elections by rationalizing our crazy-quilt pattern of strange-shaped but incumbent-friendly congressional districts. As states adjust their political maps to take into account the findings of the 2010 Census, we’re going to see the impact of the redistricting reform movement on congressional districts in states across the country.


Whether by design (incumbent protection or partisan maneuvering), by default (minority advancement efforts in neighboring districts) or some combination thereof, many Jewish Democrats with heavily Jewish constituencies represent districts that may be conducive to their reelection but are far from compact or elegant.



This is true in South Florida:



* Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee's chairwoman, has a district that slithers like a snake through Broward County and then hugs the coast down into Miami-Dade County, leaping across the Biscayne Bay to take in heavily Jewish northern Miami Beach.


* Rep. Ted Deutch’s congressional district (which, according to the National Jewish Democratic Council , is the country's most heavily Jewish district) is an amoeba sprawled across parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties.

$2.25 Million San Fernando Valley, CA Medical Malpractice Verdict ...

San Fernando Valley, CA (PRWEB) June 16, 2011

The Mandell Law Firm publically announced that in Tseng v. Mazzocco Ambulatory Surgery Center, it was argued not only that the anesthesiologist disastrous to provide a high standard of care and exercised malpractice, but also that the Ambulatory Surgery Center was negligent in allowing such actions to take place.

According to case minutes, the plaintiff underwent surgery to have a prosthetic lens implanted in his eye, which is celebrated to be a standard, quick, and relatively simple surgical course of action that takes one to two hours, with the surgery itself compelling in this area ten to fifteen minutes. The anesthesiologist and the Ambulatory Surgery Center were aware that the uncomplaining was diabetic and had a honest, preexisting kidney disease before his eye surgery started.

Risk of Anoxic Brain Injury During Surgery

Based on court minutes, during examination proceedings for the San Fernando Valley health check malpractice case, Mr. Mandell clarified that the uncomplaining had a upshot to the anesthesia after the anesthesiologist place him under. Court minutes note that as a upshot, the uncomplaining went into a deeper state of sedation than was proposed, which is scarce, but is celebrated to occur. In view of the fact that the anesthesiologist left the surgery room or otherwise disastrous to properly monitor the uncomplaining, it was established in court that the uncomplaining stopped breathing for enough time that he suffered an anoxic brain injury. This type of brain injury, also referred to as cerebral hypoxia or hypoxic-anoxic injury (HAI), occurs due to a lack of oxygen and is a honest, life-threatening injury that can lead to cognitive problems and disabilities.

Neglecting the Duty of Providing a High Standard of Care

While the Ambulatory Surgery Center claimed that everything surrounding the surgical course of action was done accurately, the plaintiff’s lawyer, Mr. Mandell, according to court ID, helped verify that the Ambulatory Surgery Center knew in this area and permitted this fastidious anesthesiologist’s trend to leave patients under anesthesia unattended with nurses who are not qualified or licensed to soubriquet or treat out cold patients. In agreeing that the eye surgery uncomplaining received a low standard of care and was provided inadequate behavior not up to par with what he is expected to be agreed, court minutes indicate that the jury found the Ambulatory Surgery Center negligent. The Mandell Law Firm had previously reached a settlement with the anesthesiologist for his role in contributing to the eye surgery uncomplaining’s anoxic brain injury.

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