Newsom Demands Special Election to Fully Gerrymander The Already Very Gerrymandered State

The far-left failure Governor Newsom is forcing a special election in an already very gerrymandered state into a utterly one party state. Newsom is a threat to democracy. Newsom claims gerrymandering is evil so he is going to super-gerrymander California’s existing gerrymandered congressional districts. Think about that.

Newsom wants to increase Democrat representation by five more, which would give Democrats 92% representation, while 40% of California votes Republican.

The inconvenient fact for the California governor is that he can’t re-draw the lines with only his supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature. He has to go to the people, because in 2008, California voters authorized the creation of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (We Draw the Lines). Los Angeles Times: Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democratic lawmakers and their allies on Thursday launched a special election campaign urging California voters to approve new congressional districts to shrink the state’s Republican delegation, a move that could determine control of Congress next year and stymie President Trump’s agenda. The special election effort is a response to Republican-led states, notably Texas, pushing at Trump’s behest to redraw their congressional maps to favor Republicans and reduce the number of Democrats in the narrowly divided U.S. House of Representatives (Los Angeles Times). Cal Matters on the prospects of a special election: [Newsom] would still have to persuade voters who are no more than lukewarm despite the unpopularity of Trump in California, according to private polling. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who championed the creation of an independent redistricting commission, says he’ll oppose Newsom’s plan and Charles Munger Jr., a wealthy scientist who bankrolled two ballot measures to create the commission, says he’ll support an opposition campaign. Given the stakes, Trump and Republicans would probably flood the state with opposition campaign money while Democrats would do the same, with even more money coming from labor unions and other Democratic allies. Newsom also faces the possibility of legal battles, such as issues over what data he uses to draw the new districts (Cal Matters).