California, Proposition 50 and likely voters
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Just one week out from California's Nov. 4 special election, Gov. Gavin Newsom is putting the brakes on donations in support of Proposition 50, saying he reached his fundraising goal.
Eleven percent of Prop. 50 supporters are reluctant, saying they’ll vote for the measure, but it is a “bad idea.”
With a new poll Tuesday night, political pundits in California have more ammunition for their sense that voters will approve Proposition 50 and give Democrats carte blanche to replace the state’s independently-drawn congressional districts with maps designed to punt members of the GOP from the U.S. House of Representatives.
That doesn’t mean we’ve won the campaign, quite the contrary, but we reached our goals, we’ve reached our budget,’ Newsom says in a video posted on social media.
Proposition 50 doesn’t touch the state legislative districts but could have a trickle-down effect at the state Capitol as veteran state lawmakers jump at the chance to run for new safe-blue House seats. Their departures could, in turn, create more openings for women in the statehouse.
San Diego County is divided by its urban and rural regions in congressional maps. Proposition 50 would join them together in an attempt to weaken Republican voting power.
California’s congressional redistricting plan goes to voters Nov. 4. It aims to cancel out Texas’ effort to gain Republican seats in the U.S. House.
Resolutions opposing Proposition 50 appeared on the city of South Lake Tahoe’s City Council agenda and the El Dorado County’s Board of Supervisors agenda on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Each proposal