- The same day the Legislature voted to call a special election to redraw California’s congressional districts and boost the number of Democrats in Congress, millions of dollars began pouring into campaigns supporting and opposing the move.
- Voters will cast ballots on new congressional districts in November.
Millions of dollars began flowing into campaigns supporting and opposing an effort to redraw California’s congressional districts on the November ballot, notably $10 million from independent redistricting champion Charles Munger Jr.
The checks, reported Friday in state campaign finance disclosures, were made on Thursday, the day the state Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special election to replace the congressional districts drawn by an independent commission in 2021 with new districts that would boost the number of Democrats elected to Congress in next year’s midterm election.
The move is an effort by California Democrats to counter Texas Republicans’ and President Trump’s efforts to boost the number of GOP members.
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Munger, a GOP donor and the son of a billionaire who was Warren Buffett’s right-hand man, bankrolled the 2010 ballot measure that created independent congressional redistricting in California. He donated $10 million to the “No on Prop. 50 – Protect Voters First” campaign,” which opposes the proposed redistricting.
“Charles Munger Jr. is making good on his promise to defend the reforms he passed,” said Amy Thoma, a spokesperson for the Voters First Coalition, which opposes the ballot measure and includes Munger.
A spokesperson for the campaign supporting the redrawing of congressional boundaries accused Munger
of trying to boost the GOP under the guise of supporting independent redistricting.
Looking at the BIGGER picture, Gov. “Hair Gel” pushing this on the November ballot to take redistricting from the independent commission and return it to the Democrat-controlled legislature will show the ENTIRE country what Newscum is all about. This can only hurt his presidential (ROFL) ambitions beyond the communist base THAT LOVES HIS TRUMP COPIED TWEETS.
You don’t have to be a mathematician to realize that if a state votes 40% Republican and has 52 representatives, even its current slate of nine is not fair. To reduce that number, it will show Newscum for the gel-haired freak that he is.
What’s not fair is that orange adolph telling Texas to stack the deck in the middle of the 10 year census cycle. Don’t like it? Move somewhere else magats and while you are there, grow a brain. And remember this, when that orange fool screws this country, just bend over and smile while you take it because if not, the storm troppers will come for you idiots.