Newsom vows Texas will be ‘neutered’ by California Will voters let him do it?
Gov. This week, Gavin Newsom created a threat of sputum to Texas legislators who worked on Gerrymand’s voting maps in favor of Republicans.
“Everything they do here will be neutered here in the province of California and pay this price,” Newsom said. “They triggered this response. And we will not overthrow and fight fire with fire.”
In this sentence, you are the California voters, which may soon be asked to correct the Texas threat through the ballot. If there was a way to Newsom, in November, voters would encounter an IF/then a version of the problem: “If Texas cheated on the voting maps, (and only then) California Should California deceive ours?”
In the days of this creeping authoritarianism, this is a fair interrogation, as well as one of the personal interests and risks that will revitalize and even crush American democracy.
However, the situation of our union is ready to throw the basic principles of even those who are determined to protect it – including myself – a kind of self – and rethinks the voting maps in a way that will benefit again to benefit from democracy as a whole, even if it is not a party.
“This is something we’ve never seen before, isn’t it?” Mindy Romero called me Tuesday. He is the founder of the Assistant Professor and Inclusive Democracy Center at the USC’s Left Price Public Policy School.
Romero acknowledges that we are against Gerrymandering, but also at the same time in unprecedented times ,, which does not make justice to the daily breaking of democratic guarantees by our president.
So far, most of you are aware of the fact that the Texas Legislative Assembly, allegedly claimed to have been claimed after the pressure of President Trump, is thinking of re -voting maps for the Republicans in the Congress during the 2026 midterm exams – the choice that the Democrats pray for will provide them with at least one room.
With the possibility that two steps of Texas could give Trump a more firmly compatible congress, Newsom prepared a plan for our own maps Gerrymander. However, to make it legal, voters need to continue because they need to continue because this is not Texas and we do not ignore the rules. We bend them.
Who thought that the redistribution could be so exciting? But calm down, redistributor cows: It remains boring for the majority of voters with both the problem and the brightness of the plan – you must be busy with voters, but not as deep as they think very deeply.
The difference between Texas and California is ultimately our ballot attempt to make voters responsible for any Gerrymandering here. Back room things in Texas.
But will the voters go for that? For many, it will go down to simple choices that miss the complexity of the question: California etc. Texas, Newsom etc. Trump, democracy and authoritarianism.
Romero warns that even for a virtuous reason, after breaking a norm, it is difficult to get it back. Despite Newsom’s claim that fraudulent maps will disappear in 2030, he is concerned that Gerrymandering might stay.
California has one of the best systems in the country with an independent commission that draws lines without looking at the party.
Gerrymandering, which lasted for decades, disappointed left voters.
In the 1980s, it is claimed that the political icon Phillip Burton has broken a famous Gerrymander who still shows how bad things can be. Partly, his brother John Burton (a colorful man in the state legislative council before he became the president of the California Democratic Party and the Congress), made the necessary votes in the Gulf Region to protect the seat of a ridiculous area to dig.
“Oh, magnificent,” Phillip Burton He described the suspicious area Then the Washington Post. “It’s like a snake and curls out.”
This was done before the entry into force of our redistribution commission in 2008, and at that time it was a heavy pushing by the GOV. Arnold SchwarzeneggerStaying as Gerrymandering’s vocal critic, he promised to fight with Newsom’s plan.
However, this non -Partisan system was hardly won, and in fact, both parties did not really like the idea.
“We’ve been in this and more cool, Rom Romero said. “The Democrats and the Republicans in California did not want independent redistribution. Let’s clarify this. But many people came together and worked towards it.”
Therefore, although any upcoming voting measures will probably focus on the accuracy of the fight against fire, it is true that the Democratic Party and some democratic politicians hopes to gain personal profits from such a vote.
As much as it can be about saving this democracy, politics is always related to personal and party gain. Some California state legislators would definitely want to win a newly drawn chair in the Congress. And of course, Newsom has political ambitions.
“It is really hard to solve people who can be afraid for our democracy, Rom said Romero.
This is the choice of voters to ultimately be requested.
But at the same time, we cannot ignore the precarious nature of times and the fact that our controls and balances are disintegrated. Are we saving election integrity and perhaps risk democracy, or are we trying to save democracy and election integrity from risk?
Two ways go to darkness. Do voters follow Newsom or Trump?
