Redistricting Partners

Night of the Broken Gerrymanders.

If Texas had originally drawn a plan to net Republicans two seats, there wouldn’t have been a Prop 50. Period. Their eyes were bigger than their actual ability to Gerrymander and the audacity of their plan was what gave @GavinNewsom the public outrage he needed to successfully launch the nation’s biggest and most effective response to Trump and Trumpism that we have seen in the past two years. Without Prop 50, CA may have been able to still challenge Valadao in #CA22 but never have been able to pick up five seats, and would have had to spend a bajillion dollars protecting frontliners Gray (#CA13), Whitesides (#CA27), Tran (#CA45) and Min (#CA47), and even spend a bit to make sure Harder (#CA9), Levin (#CA49) and Ruiz (#CA25) were good. Instead, we are on the precipice of having just four Republican members of Congress in California and Texas is projected to net only two from this whole nonsense. This whole Texas redistricting was such an own goal. And hopefully a cautionary lesson for the future. Let’s end the redistricting wars and get a real national reform done that puts redistricting in the hands of the people, eliminates partisan redistricting, and steers us away from a future filled with redistricting fights every two years!

This is important and necessary. The country needs to end these gerrymandering wars and enter 2031 with a real standardized national redistricting reform that takes partisanship and incumbents out of it. Let’s end gerrymandering. problemsolverscaucus.house.g…

An important window into the challenges of these mid-decade redistricting pushes and the importance of community voices, even in a fast process. 🎁 gift link below. sfchronicle.com/politics/joe…

This one’s for all the in-laws who have already returned their #Prop50 special election ballots!

If you’re keeping track at home…. 👏🏽 “proposed Proposition 50 map will further increase Latino voting power over the current Commission map”Cal Poly Pomona / CalTech cpp.edu/class/political-scie… 👏🏽 “proposed map likely will increase Asian American voting power” UCLA AAPI Policy Initiative aasc.ucla.edu/resources/poli… 👏🏽 “the proposed plan matches the current one almost exactly: it adds one more Latino influence district but otherwise replicates the status quo.” PPIC ppic.org/blog/how-would-the-…