Governor reveals election rigging response act to counter Trump’s push to gain five extra seats in Texas midterms
Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said on Thursday state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan to counter the Republican-led map-drawing effort in Texas aimed at securing a House majority after the midterm elections.
Newsom, joined by congressional Democrats and legislative leaders, unveiled a plan, known as the election rigging response act, that would override California’s independent redistricting commission and draw new congressional lines – a direct counter to a Texas effort, sought by Donald Trump, to push through mid-cycle maps that could hand Republicans five extra US House seats. The governor vowed the move would “neuter and neutralize” Texas’s proposal.
“Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Newsom declared at a rally in Los Angeles, in which he formally called for a 4 November special election to approve a new congressional map. “We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district all across the country.”
“We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district all across the country.”
Yep, step the fuck up everyone.
This is still a form of gerrymandering, right? I hope this does not kick off a wave of disenfranchisement across other red states.
We really need to get the US territories statehood/representation too. And DC.
We tried playing fair, that got us Trump twice
I understand. I just fear out of control escalation like bickering characters in a cartoon.
It’s already out of control. This is self defense.
I understand, but, if playing the game by the rules doesn’t result in victory…
We already lost the rule of law to a dictator. We didn’t fire the first shot of this civil war, but we can’t ignore it.
I would hardly call it a civil war. It’s a civil struggle for sure, but I don’t think the majority of Americans have their heart in it, and nor should they. They’re being ruled by a minority.
There are masked men with guns in unmarked cars disappearing people without any law binding them. What would you call that?
Just a note that none of this impacts presidential elections.
But if Texas does their thing, this would be a necessary response for the house
what do you mean, “kick off”?
Kicking off, say, five other states redrawing maps to cancel out California and to head off other blue states trying the same.
That sort of frantic escalation wouldn’t be good.
from what I’ve gathered (although it’s been hard for me to find the exact info I’m looking for) most of the states with nonpartisan or bipartisan redistricting commissions seem to be democratic states by a significant margin.
safe to assume the ones that have partisan commissions are already gerrymandered to hell and back. and there’s little to gain from doing it more; there will be diminishing returns.
i think an all out war would mostly benefit the dems but again i don’t have very concrete data so I’ll qualify these statements to be based on gut and not much more.
That’s my gut feeling as well. Gerrymandering is a Republican tradition and they’ve been doing it in red states for decades now. Hard to believe there’s much more to squeeze from it. Blue states however…
Newsom, joined by congressional Democrats and legislative leaders, unveiled a plan, known as the election rigging response act, that would override California’s independent redistricting commission and draw new congressional lines
I don’t fault what they’re doing here; war is war. But just look at how easily the democratic process can be stripped away. Just a flick of the pen and it’s gone. No real safeguards. Not a single shot fired.
It’s important to realize you can’t really safe guard against authoritarianism once they already control the government
Agreed. We failed loooong ago. Now we are just along for the ride.
This plan will still require an approval from voters.
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Obviously what Texas is doing is reprehensible but in a winner take all election system where Texas always goes republican and California always goes dem, does this actually makw a difference?
Shouldn’t they have saved the shot for another state, since Texas (AFAIK) stopped the attempt?
I mean, I am all for fighting. But Democrats have very little ammo.
Honestly it seems more like a attention grab for Newsom so he can run for president. I don’t want Newsom as the next candidate…
