Newsom's redistricting move isn't pretty. California GOP leaders are uglier

[Zorro]

King Gavin is at it again!

That’s the cry coming from Republicans across California as Newsom pushes the state Legislature to approve a November special election like none this state has ever seen. Voters would have the chance to approve a congressional map drawn by Democrats hoping to wipe out GOP-held seats and counter Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Trump-driven redistricting.

The president “doesn’t play by a different set of rules — he doesn’t believe in the rules,” the governor told a roaring crowd packed with Democratic heavyweights last week at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. “And as a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It’s not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil and talk about the way the world should be. ... We have got to meet fire with fire.”

California Republicans are responding to this the way a kid reacts if you take away their Pikachu.

“An absolutely ridiculous gerrymander!” whined Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who represents the state’s rural northeast corner, on social media. Under the Democratic plan, his district would swing all the way down to ultra-liberal Marin County.

The California Republican Party deemed the new maps a “MASTERCLASS IN CORRUPTION” (Trumpian caps in the original). National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Christian Martinez said “Newscum” was giving “a giant middle finger to every Californian.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-19/newsom-redistricting-special-election-california

Republicans hate the taste of their own medicine.

[oasis]

1. Cry me a river you election rigging MAGAbots.

[OC375]

2. Prologue

Be interesting to see if all this stuff eventually leads to migration. With enough of it, you get a new Union and CSA geographically. At that point, you can have a land war.

[lostincalifornia]

3. Anyone who thinks the California redistricting is a slam dunk is fooling themselves. There are major big money

donors pushing to have this defeated.

Many may not be aware of what happened with Prop 8 in 2008, which was an amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage in the state Constitution. It passed, largely because of significant financial support from the Mormon Church, and other extreme right wing groups, and their distorted advertising bombarding the airwaves. Of course the wording of the Proposition didn't help either.

In order for this to happen, and to offset what Texas is doing, there needs to be a massive turnout in a non-election year, and huge republican money is working to get it defeated.

It can be done, but only if people get out and vote.

[70sEraVet]

4. California GOP leaders should take their complaints to trump.

I'm sure HE cares about their feelings!