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California farmers push back on Prop 50 as Democrats eye new House map
Fox News ^ | 2 November 2025 | Amalia Roy

Posted on 11/03/2025 4:10:04 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701

California voters are in the final days of a special election that could help determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026. The ballot measure, known as Proposition 50, would allow state lawmakers to temporarily redraw California’s congressional map — a move Democrats say could help them pick up additional seats in Congress.

Jenny Holtermann, a fourth-generation farmer in California's Central Valley, said that under the proposed map, she would remain in a Republican district, but worries about the changes could affect her community.

"It really is, it’s sad that they are really carving out those Republican areas of the district and moving them to really make the areas more Democrat, and that’s not what the Central Valley is," Holtermann told Fox.

Beyond Central Valley farmers, the California Farm Bureau has also come out against Prop 50. Holtermann said she’s used to larger cities having more political influence in Sacramento but fears the measure would further silence rural voices.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agriculture; california; farmers; prop50; redistricting
"The forces of our national life are not brought to bear on public questions solely in proportion to the weight of numbers. If they were, the 6 million citizens of the Chicago area would hold sway in the Illinois Legislature without consideration of the problems of their 4 million fellows who are scattered in 100 other counties. Under the Court's new decree, California could be dominated by Los Angeles and San Francisco; Michigan by Detroit." -- Everett Dirksen, after Reynolds v. Sims, 1964.
1 posted on 11/03/2025 4:10:05 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

It’s far too late for them to start squawking.


2 posted on 11/03/2025 4:19:40 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

End the filibuster.

Pay the troops and air traffic controllers.

Trim back welfare programs.

Cede most of the lower-income Democratic areas of California and the southern tip of Texas back to Mexico.

Map A: Republican redistricting map

Map B: map of Mexico & the United States in the second half of 2026 if Map A is not adopted


3 posted on 11/03/2025 4:34:23 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Jenny Holtermann id a rino in every sense of the term.

A Dem operative in a Republican Edgar skin suit.

I’ll be so glad when the 5th is over.

If I have to be ambushed while watching TV (and out of reach of my remote )

by seeing Obama’s, newscums, lieawatha, and a whole slew of non Californians faces spewing lies about prop 50 much longer im gonna puke.


4 posted on 11/03/2025 5:09:31 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

If 50 passes is it appealable?


5 posted on 11/03/2025 5:23:05 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: rottweiller_inc

Time for 2 Californias…Everything West of the Coastal Range one state, everything East of it a new state-East California.


6 posted on 11/03/2025 5:41:00 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Time for State of Jefferson.
Actually, it’s overdue.
Movement was set aside after Pearl Harbor.


7 posted on 11/03/2025 7:12:39 AM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Lizavetta

> If 50 passes is it appealable?<

I’m sure there is a federal judge in the Central Valley that can stop it from becoming law just long enough to not affect the 2026 election. That roadmap was already written by leftist judges.

EC


8 posted on 11/03/2025 7:33:39 AM PST by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

California Farmers...all three of them.


9 posted on 11/03/2025 7:34:37 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

F^^K Newsom! We are out of this s^^thole state!


10 posted on 11/03/2025 8:16:28 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

What, are you braindead or something? California farmers grow most of the produce consumed in this the US. Dumba$$.


11 posted on 11/03/2025 8:17:56 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

In this day and age, it seems to me that House Seats Should be determined by taking total voting citizen population, which would determine the number of reps, and then dividing that State’s total land mass area by the number of reps, which would result in a number that would be the square miles of each district, and then have a computer randomly fit that number of districts into the State map. Once that is complete, each district can then elect that districts rep.


12 posted on 11/03/2025 8:18:43 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Agatsu77

No I am saying since big ag has come in and consolidated farms, there are too few people actually doing farming to have a political impact, especially in a state with a strong voter fraud program like California.


13 posted on 11/03/2025 10:33:50 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Even if Prop 40 wins, someone is going to challenge it in fed court. as it will eliminate whole congress districts. Crazy Gavin thinks that 5 extra seats will win control of congress, but the other stats will not allow that to happen..


14 posted on 11/03/2025 3:08:13 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

dont know much about the central valley do you


15 posted on 11/03/2025 3:10:54 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

Actually I grew up on a farm near Merced. The fairy shrimp, water issues, and democrat rule have decimated the small farmers there.


16 posted on 11/03/2025 5:00:07 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: kaktuskid

I live in CA. 4 years ago I moved from the beach to Palm Desert I honestly felt like I had moved to a different state!! The coastal areas have become swill pits EXCEPT Huntington Beach the residents of Huntington Beach are bare knuckle fighters and it is a knock down drag out fight for them each and everyday!!!


17 posted on 11/03/2025 5:48:05 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell )
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