Gouverneur Gavin Newsom fordert eine Sonderwahl, um eine neue Kongresskarte in Kalifornien zu ermöglichen
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/gov-gavin-newsom-calls-special-election-allow-new-congressional-map-ca-rcna224981
Gouverneur Gavin Newsom fordert eine Sonderwahl, um eine neue Kongresskarte in Kalifornien zu ermöglichen
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/gov-gavin-newsom-calls-special-election-allow-new-congressional-map-ca-rcna224981
29 Kommentare
It’s time to beat them at their own game.
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Republicans have long since burned down any semblance of good faith. Go scorched earth and don’t look back.
I don’t like Newsom that much but if you’re a democrat and you’re not going scorched earth at this point then get out of the way
Good. Every blue state should follow…
Come on Pritzker, if you want to stay in the 2028 conversation, as Newsom said, Illinois needs to get this moving too.
Beshear, Pritzker and the rest need to follow his leads. Newsom is showing us he’s the leader of the resistance!
Send Andy Harris down the ocean, Maryland.
You don’t debate rot.
You don’t compromise with rot.
You don’t coexist with rot.
You cut it out.
You burn it away.
You destroy every trace before it spread further.
Finally, a fucking Democrat doing something right. Trump and his MAGA base, plainly put, is the rot in the country.
Does this allow us to get the number of house reps per capita that other states have? Or does that need to be done at the federal level?
Just curious, can California state reps do the same thing there that Texas Dems did and break quorum there?
Don’t get me wrong, I hope Newsom can follow though with his fighting fire with fire approach on redistricting, but on one hand if the California GOP does the same that can have a positive effect as well… in so much as it shows just how utterly ridiculous this whole song and dance is, and shows how necessary the need for non partisan and independent bodies to draw fair districts are.
But the GOP will never allow that to happen in any Red State so, fuck ‘em. Godspeed Gavin.
Let’s be about it & get it done.
Newsom and Pritzker are the only ones fighting fascism right now.
Let’s go!
„I used the stones to destroy the stones“
California are people still fleeing east? Who’s buying those ocean front Malibu land that burned down? Gerrymandering is the priority? Is Newsom planning a presidential run? What states are envious of California? Good luck to you, can’t wait to hear all of the progress you made running your state in the next debate
LFG. I’m voting yes. This is a majority blue state.
We should take JD Vance’s advice and govern by wielding our power
I don’t get why people don’t like Newsom. He’s the only one I’m seeing actually push back with action against this orange piece of shit.
I’d vote yes.
“The move comes as Republicans in Texas, with President Donald Trump’s backing, are pursuing a new congressional map that would allow them to gain up to five more House seats.
„It’s not complicated. We’re doing this in reaction to a president of the United States that called a sitting governor of the state of Texas and said, ‚find me five seats,'“ Newsom said. „We’re doing it in reaction to that act. We’re doing it mindful of our higher angels and better angels. We’re doing it mindful that we want to model better behavior, as we’ve been doing for 15 years in the state of California with our independent redistricting commission. But we cannot unilaterally disarm.“
California Democrats need approval from others in to sidestep the state’s independent redistricting commission, and the clock is ticking for lawmakers to approve a ballot initiative for this year’s Nov. 4 election. If the measure passes, it would allow new maps to be enacted in time for the 2026 midterm elections.”
Newsome is the governor we NEED right now and I’m 100% LOVING it. We need more and more governors of blue states to start fighting fire with fucking fire.
It’s still not official, but this would be the closest thing Democrats have done to „going on the offensive“ that I’ve seen in years, maybe my lifetime. It’s about time they get off their heels and try to put Republicans off balance for once. Texas GOP figured they could get away with it because Democrats always fold. It’s well past time to put pressure on them instead.
And I imagine any republicans will flee the state and be encouraged to do so by their peers.
Every so often a corporate democrat does something right. This is one of those times.
Fuck the criminal child-trafficking/rape cult that is MAGA into the dustbin of hell.
You know what? Good. Republicans don’t play fair, so neither should we. Honor means nothing when your opponent has none. It’s time to even the playing field.
„Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for a special election to allow for a new congressional map in California“ This is the corpoDems admitting that they are just as incompetent and dismissive of democracy as the party of domestic terrorism. This is a bullshit move that will not get the corpoDems to a Congressional majority.
Fuck corpoDems.
Can someone ELI5? Doesn’t CA always vote blue by a long shot? What’s the purpose here?
This redistricting arms race started by Republicans is totally a normal and healthy thing for a democracy. /s
In reality, all this feels like something that would come from the 1850s in the lead up to the civil war or reconstruction — not saying that it is going to happen but states haven’t been at each other’s throats like this in a while.
Do it. It’s time to start fighting back. Blue states need to start showing their power vs empty red states that influence every inch of our policy making.
Just do it