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In the middle of a $12 billion deficit that required cuts to education and health care, Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats will spend hundreds of millions on a ‘special election’ to convince voters to set aside state law and back a ‘constitutional amendment so they can gerrymander the state into 94% control over congressional seats for their political party.
How much will the special election to make California a near one-party state cost? The appropriations committee failed to present a cost. Despite not being able to appropriate funds for the special election or having any way to budget for it, Dems are still moving forward.
This point is all the more significant because a leading argument against the Newsom recall, undertaken in protest of the governor’s corruption and abuses during the pandemic lockdowns was how much money it would cost. California Democrats and media outlets like CNN and the LA Times claimed that the reported $200 million cost was a waste of money and began working to make it more difficult to recall Newsom and future Democrat governors to ‘save money’.
Now those same Democrats, who claimed that spending hundreds of millions to recall Newsom was a waste of money, enthusiastically advocate spending hundreds of millions to gerrymander the state, not for any benefit, real or imaginary, to Californians, but only to their political party.
Apart from the minor details of how much the gerrymandering special election will cost, California Democrats also claim not to know who drew the maps they want to present to the voters. This was also dismissed as an unimportant detail by Assembly Elections Chair Gail Pellerin who responded to a reporter’s question about who drew the maps with, “when I go to a restaurant, I don’t need to meet the chef.” And when drawing the maps to eliminate what’s left of democracy in California, the elections chair doesn’t want to know how the sausage gets made.
Pellerin also refused to release tens of thousands of comments opposed to gerrymandering.
Democrat Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry claimed that the “assembly” drew the maps and refused to answer who in the assembly specifically drew the maps. Assemblyman Steve Bennett of the Progressive Caucus hedged that “all kinds of things happened in the legislature” and insisted that “the legislative leadership wrote these maps”, but refused to name who actually wrote the maps, only a “team”, before the Democrat leadership cut off the debate.
By then it had been widely reported that the maps were really being drawn by the party’s ‘chef’: Paul Mitchell, the owner of Redistricting Partners and a vice president at Political Data, Inc, which had announced a few years ago that it would only work with Democrats and “progressives”. “It’s something we’ve been thinking about for years,” he said at the time.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reportedly paid for the maps.
No one elected Mitchell to anything, but an unelected political consultant drawing maps to eliminate any meaningful choices for voters even while elected officials lie in legislative sessions about who drew the maps is entirely consistent with the project’s mission to end democracy.
Mitchell, Newsom’s ‘mapman’ is a former Dem staffer who is married to Jodi Hicks: CEO and president of Planned Parenthood in California. At Newsom’s rally, Hicks appeared to threaten Republicans with gerrymandering, “you take away our freedom; we’ll take away your seats.”
By “we”, Hicks apparently meant her husband.
Hicks, whose total compensation is over half a million dollars, was brought in by Democrats to testify in defense of the maps that her husband was drawing without disclosing the fact.
Democrats repeatedly claimed that they couldn’t discuss details such as the cost of the special election, who drew the maps and any information about the process because it was a “state of emergency”. The supposed emergency is the redistricting going on in Texas, but the actual text of the state constitutional amendment declares that it will be triggered by any state’s redistricting. Including potentially fellow Democrat states. It was never about Texas.
There is no actual state of emergency. Gov. Newsom is manufacturing one for his own benefit.
Newsom’s state of emergency will require ramming rural Modoc County into Marin County for reasons that California Democrats aren’t even pretending has anything to do with either Modoc or Marin, but as part of a national war involving Planned Parenthood and Newsom’s 2028 presidential prospects. And the people of Modoc County have to lose their ability to choose their elected representatives to boost the partisan undemocratic agenda of the Democrat Party.
California Democrats won’t admit what the real state of emergency is, just like they won’t admit who really drew the electoral maps, but it’s easy to spot the actual emergency by looking at the 2024 election which even in California saw, according to a USC study, that “young Californians have begun to move towards the Republican party in recent election years”.
“Young registered voters of all racial and ethnic groups saw notably larger shifts towards the Republican party compared to their older counterparts. Latino youth, however, saw particularly large growth in Republican party registration between presidential elections.”
That is the actual emergency. The emergency is Democrats losing their grip on the future.
Gerrymandering is a tool of the narrow fading majority. California Democrats, make up 45% of registered voters, but control 82% of the congressional seats, and now want 94%. Rig enough of the system and 45% of the state can control 94% or 100% of it, but so can 1% or 0.001%.
Democrats are going along with Newsom’s illegal coup because they can feel the ground moving underfoot. They bet everything on demographics, but the demographics are betraying them, and so they are declaring an emergency to stage a coup against democracy in California.
Gov. Newsom wants to romp through the 2028 primaries by portraying California Democrats as firmly in control of the state due to his strong leadership when they’re actually shaky and terrified of losing power if Trump’s immigration crackdown drives away the populations of their ‘ghost districts’ inhabited by illegal aliens and other non-citizens, and are worried that they’re losing younger voters who are becoming sick and tired of living in a corrupt one-party state.
Newsom’s gerrymandering coup is meant to convince national Democrats of his power so that they will make him their nominee in 2028, but what it actually shows is his weakness.
Everything that today’s Progressive Democrats do, whether in California or elsewhere, confirms that they are Stalinists and an existential threat to the American Republic. American citizens need to rise up and put an end to this socialist criminal enterprise masquerading as a political party. They should have been removed from the political life of this nation a very long time ago, but many who could have opposed them stood by and did nothing while they went about destroying the foundations of the Republic. Enough.
Governor Hitler News-Scum should be totally removed from Sacramento, California and the whole U, S, of A we did recalled Grey Davis and we need to do it with Newsom as well
Computer algorithms could generate a number of redistricting options that seemed fair, and then the state legislatures could choose one or have the voters choose one.
I don’t know AA. Would the “Emperor of California” actually allow the voters to choose?
graph paper laid over the state map… done.
ONGOING DESTRUCTION OF CALIFORNIA 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I am now elderly, but lived in CA, in the San Fernando valley, for 23 years. Then, one could drive to the beach, or to the mountains (both beautiful), with no problems. What has happened to the state is just so sad to watch. No wonder why so many have left.
Many have left, but look who took their places! Instead of productive, law abiding citizens, CA has grown through importing ILLEGALS who rely on Gov’t assistance or who actively operate businesses on a “cash” basis AND rely on Gov’t assistance! Not ALL of them, but I’d bet the % is right up there with ILLEGALS’ voting trends!
The day is soon when California will implode financially. Then maybe it will be born again. The corruption has been growing for 75 years. The “ border” has been easy for most of the last 50 years and that has led to less taxes for the State so they tax the law abiding property owners and the politicians are whores who do anything to stay in office. As a former native I left over 22 years ago.
The current redistricting board is reputed to be 1/3 Democrats, 1/3 Republicans, and 1/3 Independents. But the Independents are the kind of Independents like Bernie Sanders and Angus King, so it is really 2/3 leftists. Still, that is not good enough for Gov Gav, with 13% of the Congressional districts leaning Republican in a state that voted 38% for Trump. They want it to be 6%. Will the voters be fooled again?
DuNCe demoncRats are gangsters – they are criminals. They break laws to get their way and get their win. President Trump has 3 1/2 more years and hopefully with VP JD Vance following up with two terms will bolster the DOJ, FBI and whatever to bring to justice these criminals and stop these Unconstitutional machinations and acts by these criminals who are all vying for a spot in the deep state creating competition to out creep and out criminal and out defy our USA Constitution to climb the ladder of the deep state who considers them no better than hunting dogs – sic ’em and off they go – they come back wagging their tails – did I do good – and get a pat on the head and more lies that we, the deep state, will take care of you and yours – the devil is a liar and the deep state is deadheading to the antichrist sweeping as many along with them who are wagging their tail and tongues out for the deep state antichrist.
Doesn;t Gruesome NewScum have a face you’d like to put on a speed bag and punch.- Gruesome NewScum has a punchable face
Little Hitler is throwing a fit because his demographics are being shipped back to their native country. The rest, like a poster above said, are saddling up and leaving. I have a daughter there. I have been BEGGING her to do the same.
I wonder at what point this state will violate the Constitution “the United States shall guarantee to each State a republican form of government, and protect it against invasion ….? Seems like we just might be there when 40% of a state’s population has no say.. taxation without representation, hell, no representation of any kind.
I’m holding a good thought that the people of California are finally willing to look past party lines and see the menace Newsom has become.
The Gabbling Nuisance thinks he’s got everything under his narcissist grubby thumb. He is acting more like a king thn a duly elected governor. Maybe that’s cause he is NOT “duly elected”?
Say, therre, Gabby, that’s a mighty nice bay ya got there just inside them Golden Gates. Shame if late one night three shiploads of tea got dumped into it, hey?
We have Trump in office now. It would seem to be the best time for his administration to look for a way that California’s actions here are illegal on a national level. If so, swoop in and make arrests.
“the project’s mission to end democracy.’
Piffle. California has been the world’s longest one-party state since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990. The notion of political choice in California is as absurd as it was in the times of Joseph Stalin.
And, frankly, I don’t much care. If Californians are silly enough to vote for socialist governments, they deserve to get the consequences, “good and hard” as HL Mencken said. They voted for governments that ensured there was no water in fire hydrants while LA was burning to the ground. They voted for governments that provide NO protection whatsoever from crime and looters.
This is just the latest round of Gov, Newscum trying to look “presidential”. What was not mentioned in this otherwise fine article is that the Calif constitution mandates a particular comittee of political neutrals to draw districts. These districts are drawn every ten years, and we still have a few more to go before they are redrawn. Governor Pomade is trying to skirt that to offset the “Texas problem” of fewer Democrat representatives. The whole mess is purely political, but worse than that, it disregards the state constitution he vowed to protect and defend. Just the kind of integrety you’d expect from a man who ran off with his best friend’s wife. People, PRAY he never becomes the president.
Demonocrats have been cheating in elections since EIGHTEEN NINETY EIGHT (1898) !!! Gruesome Newscum is continuing their tradition !
In 2010 I applied to the State of California to become a Redistricting Commissioner. It was an arduous process requiring submitting an essay on why I would like this opportunity, my qualifications, my residence history, and three letters of recommendation; all of which I submitted within the time required.
The application also asked what my political affiliation was.
The process took several months, and I eventuallly received a note informing me that my application was turned down because I was not qualified. No specific lack of qualifications was given; just not qualified.
I highly suspect the board charged with selection of Redistrict Commissioners was mostly Democrats, and their intention was to pack the commission with Democrats.
Californian’s have insured two decades of having to put up with Gavin Newsome political manipulations with most of us coming to the conclusion Newsome is a smooth talking liberal political talking head who’s sole purpose is to insure California remains a Democratic state. Gavin Newsom has been California’s 40th governor since 2019. He also served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019, and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
His ambition is clearly to run for POTUS in 2028. Gavin Newsome’s plan is to have legislatures or hand picked appointees replace The CA Citizen Redistricting Commission which runs counter to California law. In Gavin Newsome would turn out to be the worst POTUS in USA history, especially after reducing the number of Republican representatives by redistricting California via Gerrymandering, I believe his popularity would eventually rival that of Joe (Big Guy) Biden; now considered the worst POTUS in USA history.