Posted on 08/18/2025 1:47:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The voters of California don’t support his gerrymandering scheme.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has cast himself as a defender of democracy in the gerrymandering war that erupted after Texas Democrats fled the Lone Star State in a futile attempt to kill a GOP redistricting plan. This is obviously part of an ongoing effort to bolster his national profile ahead of a probable presidential run, but it has forced him to adopt an Orwellian position on redistricting. Newsom is telling Golden State voters that, to save democracy from evil Republicans, they must allow him to usurp the power of a redistricting commission they voted to create in a 2010 ballot initiative.
Yet defeating Newsom on this issue won’t be as easy as winning hearts and minds…. California is a universal mail-in ballot state in which basic Voter ID rules simply don’t exist in any meaningful way.
Unfortunately for Newsom, a poll of registered California voters released late last week found that his constituents want the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CCRC) left unmolested. As Politico reports, “By nearly a two-to-one margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state’s House seats, the latest POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found. Just 36 percent of respondents back returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.” Nonetheless, Newsom and California’s legislature — where the Democrats enjoy a supermajority — plan to plow forward. Thursday, Newsom called for a November ballot measure that would allow the state’s congressional map to be redrawn without the inconvenient CCRC. Miraculously, the Governor’s accomplices in the State Assembly and Senate produced a redrawn map by Friday.
If this gerrymandered monstrosity is actually approved by California’s voters in November, the Golden State’s delegation to the United States House of Representatives would consist of 48 Democrats and 4 Republicans. California is a...
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Will Newsom Rig His Redistricting Referendum?
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If he can.
I don’t call it East Bejjing ( formerly known as Sacramento)
for nothing .
It is not who votes that counts, it is who counts the votes.
If ever there was a place that embodies the above statement, it is Kalifornia. We were lucky enough to be born in and when Kalifornia was California, and Reagan Country.
Today, EVERY election (primary, general, dog catcher) is 100% mail-in ballots. For THIRTY DAYS before “election day” you can ‘vote.’ In every small precinct there are dozens of ballot “drop boxes.” We call them ballot-stuffing boxes.
For weeks AFTER the election, Nancy Pelousy’s daughter BRAGGED about traveling up and down Kalifornia, “curing” ballots.
I often wonder if the Leftist bastions of San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and perhaps entire States, will become small Atlas Shrug areas. If the Pelousy/Brown/Newsom Train To Nowhere is any indicator, it just may happen.
Does gavel 💩 in the woods?
The Democrat Party will do it for him. Count on it.
Yes.
Rhetorical question.
Of coursw! How could he not?
If CA rats did not rig an election, they would be found out for rigging all the previous ones hat showed the results obtained.
Every time I hear about Grabsome threatening to rig California elections I am immediately replaying the hostage scene from Blazing Saddles in my head.
Gov Schwarzenegger was the prime advocate for the constitutional amendment that created the redistricting commission and is preparing to lead the campaign against this referendum. Many remember his governance a lot more warmly than I do. I think he has a good chance of beating this thing. First the Legislature has to vote by 2/3 to put it on the ballot. The rats hold supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature but I’m not sure they’ll have the stones to cast that vote. We’ll see
“Will Newsom Rig His Redistricting Referendum?”
Oh, c’mon man!!
wy69
Can he?
It’s all in the way its worded.
Do you support a racist nazi map or a the map of enlightened scientists.
Right of center candidates should run as Democrats if he pulls this off. Don’t even field a “Republican” candidate. Remember - they don’t have party primaries in California - they have a jungle primary where the top two vote getters face off. Turn the “Dem” label into a non-partisan ballot - campaign strictly on issues and personalities vs. the party label - so many simply vote against the “Republican” label without any mind to issues or candidates. Get elected and vote for the Republican speaker candidate, even as a “Democrat.”
"map of enlightened scientists" LOL!
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