But after the court challenges were all soundly rejected, he decided to change this position and not respect the official certifications from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The previous November, in the midst of court challenges, he stated that he would “certainly respect” the state-level certification of results once these court cases concluded. Calvert has sought to explain his votes not to certify by claiming that he was merely protesting “constitutionally questionable changes of voting rules in some states by authorities other than state legislatures.” However, there are clear problems with this rationale. Calvert, who has no apparent connection to the Coachella Valley, is asking for us to ignore his stance toward those out-of-state voters and support his return for another term. Just hours after this horrible event, he voted to disregard the votes of the people of Arizona and Pennsylvania and not certify those states’ chosen electors. Calvert was one of 139 members of the House who voted against certifying the 2020 election in the aftermath of the Jan. What jumped out at me immediately was that Rep. As a Palm Desert resident and now a voter in this newly constituted District 41, I began to look into Ken Calvert and whether he should be entitled to represent an area so far removed from his home base. Ken Calvert, who has long represented the Corona-Norco area, is effectively now the incumbent for a new district that bizarrely stretches from west of Riverside through the mountains to include a large swath of the valley: Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells and La Quinta. Like many valley residents long used to being in one large congressional district, I was surprised to learn that the latest round of statewide redistricting ended up splitting the Coachella Valley.
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