California voters approved Proposition 50. According to the Associated Press, the approval gives Democrats a shot at winning as many as five additional congressional seats, just enough to blunt Texas Republicans' move to redraw their own maps to pick up five GOP seats.
The redistricting will greatly reduce the voice of Republicans in California. For example, rural conservative areas in northern California will be merged with Marin County. This coastal county, covering cities across from San Franscico, is a liberal stronghold, which will drown out the Republican votes from the conservative areas being added to it.
Legal challenges are expected.
Now, GOP congressmen in California will see a liberal-leaning shift in their districts, making it more likely for a Democratic candidate to win their seat in the future.
Brad Dacus is president of the Pacific Justice Institute. He says this is a big disappointment, especially for those who are in support of having “as many people’s voices heard fairly and equally on election day.”
“This decision by the governor to bring Prop 50 -- and, in so doing, be able to gerrymander and specifically silence more than half the congressmen representing an opposing party in the state of California -- is nothing with regards to promoting a democratic republic," says Dacus.
Dacus explains that it is, rather, all about exploiting a democratic republic. Furthermore, it is about silencing the ability and willingness for people to go to the polls in the first place in various parts of the state of California.
"People may object to what Texas is doing with regards to their new districting, but this is clearly not a justification for the governor of California, through Prop 50, to silence so many Californians from having their voice heard and having an opportunity for them to elect people to represent them in Congress," states Dacus.
Kevin McGary, the president of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California, agrees.
"The reality is, is Texas is another state, has nothing to do with California. Why would you disenfranchise your voters, the voters in your state because of some actions in another state? It makes no sense. It's completely illogical. But the commies in the state were all over this in a big way," he told AFN.
President Donald Trump has called Prop 50 a "giant scam" and said the voting was "rigged."
"President Trump has already said that they have a couple of legal challenges, I believe coming from the DOJ. I know I have a friend, Mark Moyer, who is also an attorney here in the state. And I think he's already put up the challenges and that's working through the system at present. So there's at least three lawsuits. That I'm aware of that are trying to help your average California citizen actually get their voices heard," McGary said.
The entire Prop 50 effort lacked the faintest hint of representation for all Californians, McGary said.
"We have very, very small representation as it is. They're really trying to completely squash the voice of Republicans in the state. This is what happens when you have delusional, diabolical periods. Like, I haven't even a care about fairness or anything like that."
