Californian here.
It’s also worth noting that there is already a lot of GOP money flooding into the state to spread misinformation about this.
I got 3 flyers in my mailbox 2 days after Newsom allowed this to go to the voters. Two were from the state Republican Party, another was from a radical billionaire who loves Trump. Both were masked with some stupid PACs designed to look like centrists were behind the messaging.
I’m also getting a shitload of YouTube ads against it.
I’m not seeing ANY messaging counteracting the GOP propaganda.
Yeah, the only positive spin I received is from Newsom dropping ads on YouTube. Got a couple negative flyers as well.
FWIW I do get a fair amount of ads from Newsom asking for donations and talking about the redistricting measure on the ballot. I also get that fucking Kristi Noem ad that makes me feel violence in my heart.
For those out of the loop, since this headline doesn’t fully describe the situation:
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to counter Texas Republicans’ congressional redistricting efforts by temporarily abandoning the Golden State’s nonpartisan congressional district-drawing process in favor of maps that would increase Democratic representation.
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“We’re also announcing as a consequence of this effort, a commitment to national independent redistricting,” Newsom said during Cohen’s Aug. 17 podcast episode. “That’s on the ballot as well. We believe it’s the right thing to do. In fact, the Democratic Party believes it’s the right thing to do. Democrats have voted for national independent redistricting. Republicans have not.”
We voted for independent redistricting in Utah a while back. They turned our progressive stronghold into the center of a pinwheel, but recently a judge ruled against that map. Utah is probably gonna be 3rd after Texas and Cali in a lot of these headlines soon, even though we only have one seat in dispute and the most cut and dry redistricting situation.
We had the opposite effect in Michigan. After our committee got done redrawing the districts, the next election brought the legislature in line with how the voting percentages stack up in statewide voting. https://votersnotpoliticians.com/how-redistricting-helped-democrats-flip-michigan/
I think the key term here is “independent.”
Prior to the current episode, Democrats wanted fair redistricting that would provide for the most equitable results.
This is what Republicans are, and have always been, against.
