Politics makes strange bedfellows. Want proof? If voters approve a redistricting plan in the Nov. 4 special election, West Marin could find itself sharing the Second Congressional District with a place where hunting, not surfing, is the signature pastime and jobs are more tied to timber-cutting than tree-hugging. 

Our left-leaning U.S. House district currently runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. The proposed new map—an effort to help Democrats flip five…