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https://californiaglobe.com/fl/gov-newsom-signs-shady-mid-decade- redistricting-legislation/

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the 3-measure package on mid-
decade Congressional redistricting: Senate Bill 280, Assembly
Constitutional Amendment 8, and Assembly Bill 604. ACA 8 will put a
measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would redraw the state�s congressional
map to favor Democrats, ostensibly in response to Texas redistricting
efforts.

As the Globe noted Thursday during Assembly floor debate on ACA 8, Trump Derangement Syndrome is on full display today in the California Assembly. Accusations of �Trump is a fascist,� to �Trump is an authoritarian,� to
Trump is a threat to Democracy,� �Trump is destroying the health care
system,� to �Trump is the reason my golf game sucks,� were expressed by
nearly all Democrats who spoke on the bills.

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The vote to pass ACA 8 was entirely along partisan lines, Democrats 57, Republicans 20. The Senate passed it in a 30�8 vote. Gov. Newsom signed
ACA 8 into law shortly after.

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But the floor discussion/debate became tedious. Worse than tedious.
Pabulum. The �Trump is to blame for everything� exposes that Democrats
have nothing to offer the people, and must blame someone for their own
failure to read the room, and their complete disconnect with 40 million Californians.

�Assembly passes ACA 8, 57-20 to place redistricting on the November
ballot. Remember these votes,� I posted on X.

The session was fraught with partisan antics from the Democrat
supermajority.

�Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) called SB 280 a political stunt to
prop up Gavin Newsom�s presidential campaign. Says Dems can�t win on the
truth. He has a point. SB 280 calls a statewide special election November
4, 2025 for ACA 8, which allows a mid-decade redistricting, setting aside
the voter approved California Redistricting Commission.�

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�Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher is telling Democrats to stop
claiming Democracy is over. And he�s exposing their actions. �in order to
save Democracy we must dismantle it� he says they are doing, �which always
led to despotism and authoritarianism � you are giving away power that
belongs to the people.� Of course, Democrats cut his mic. Then lectured
him on proper decorum in the Assembly.�

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�In order to save Democracy we must dismantle it.�

Gallagher is right.

�Assemblyman David Tangipa warns that SB 280 is a bill that no one wants,
and is political gamesmanship. It does not address the cost of housing in
CA, or the lack of hospital care in his district, or any of the issues important to Californians.�

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Tangipa is also right.

As the Globe reported:

Elections Committee Chairwoman Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz),
a former elections official, who yesterday said Democrats are �building
the most transparent process in the country,� cut the microphone of the
Vice Chairwoman Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo (R-Tulare) when she asked
who drew the proposed gerrymandered Congressional maps.

Assemblyman Tangipa asked about all of the co-authors on the bill who may
have a vested interest in the newly drawn maps. He then proposed
amendments to ACA 8 stating that any member of the legislature who votes
for the ACA cannot run for Congress in any of the newly proposed
congressional districts.

Vice Chairwoman Macedo expressed untold frustration to Chairwoman Pellerin
that she was given only a few minutes to ask her questions of the bill presenter Assemblyman Marc Berman, standing in for the bill�s author,
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas. Chairwoman Pellerin cut off Macedo�s
questions as well as Tangipa�s, and repeated ad nauseam, �I have allowed
you plenty of times to ask your questions,� and then screamed, �Mr.
Tangipa, you are out of order� several times, and cut his mic when he
insisted there were many more questions that needed answers. �We are done
with questions,� Chairwoman Pellerin declared.

Tangipa posted on X:

My mic was shut off. We don�t know who drew the maps. I was told �because
I say so� is acceptable. And I had <24 hrs to get answers for 40M
Californians. If they won�t give transparency, we�ll find it. Sunlight is
the best disinfectant�time to expose Sacramento.

�I just signed the Election Rigging Response Act to put Proposition 50 up
for a vote on November 4th,� Newsom posted to X. �The people of California
will have the power to push back against Texas and any other state that
obeys @realDonaldTrump�s demand to rig the next election.�

�Democrats acted to solely benefit personal political ambitions. The
facade about it being about other states came down when they removed the �trigger mechanism� that this scheme would only take effect in response to actions in other states,� Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), who is a target of Democrats for redistricting, said in a statement. �Even more,
the fact that the Democrats in the legislature refuse to acknowledge who
drew these maps should make clear to anyone that this is crafted for
termed-out state legislators to have tailor made seats in Congress, not
equal representation. No one can look at these maps�one with a district spreading from Modoc to Marin, another shaped like a giant elephant with a trunk to bring in downtown Sacramento with Tahoe, or sticking Lassen and
Plumas counties way over on the Nevada border with Santa Rosa in a coastal county�and say they appear credible. Do you really think the former senior environmental lawyer for NRDC is going to protect or represent ranchers, farmers, or water users?�

Gov. Newsom and California Democrats could live to rue the day they put
this on the November ballot. And because they won�t read the room, it�s
all they have.


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