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  • Governor Newsom’s strategy ultimately will rest with voters

  • California Democrats aim to finish legislative action by Friday

  • Trump-backed Texas plan nears enactment as foes threaten to sue

Aug 21 (Reuters) - The California Senate on Thursday was set to act on newly drawn political maps aimed at giving Democrats five more seats in Congress, countering a partisan advantage President Donald Trump hopes to gain from a Republican redistricting plan in Texas.

California Democrats, led by Governor Gavin Newsom, are pushing to achieve fast-track passage of their redistricting effort in the Sacramento statehouse by Friday, just in time to place it on the ballot for a special election on November 4.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Unfortunately it’s not, Newsom wants to add 5 blue seats to match what Texas is doing, that’s breaking even and it keeps the status quo as it is now, which is already unbalanced and leans hard right.
    If he actually wanted to fight back he’d be going for every blue seat he can.
    Even if other blue states follow suite it won’t be enough, they need to go nuclear with it.

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      They could go 100% of districts being blue according to this:

      It really sucks because RCV and proportional representation (using super districts) would solve so many problems—especially lesser of two evils voting. But is it better at this point to have as little MAGA representation as possible?

      • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        They could go 100% of districts being blue

        The plan ultimately has to be approved by voters, who will have to live with the new districts—and if it reaches its partisan quota by creating spaghettified districts that can’t meaningfully represent local issues, voters will be more reluctant.

            • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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              8 days ago

              Yes, of course. Maybe there are enough California voters outraged by Texas’s bullshit to give the oaky to authorize a full-blue plan for California.

              • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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                7 days ago

                There won’t be. California isn’t as blue as everyone thinks. And most Californian voters aren’t aware enough of what the rest of the country is doing to understand why Newsom would be turning back a democratic anti-gerrymandering law.

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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      8 days ago

      The consensus in another thread seemed to be that if CA went for more, that opened up the possibility for a court to say that California’s move was bad but TX’s was still Kosher.