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If someone smacks me in the head every time I walk into a bar and I do nothing, then he's going to keep doing it. I abhor violence but pretty soon in this situation, I'm going to punch him in the mouth to get him to stop. Only an idiot could acuse me of lacking integrity by doing that.
Democrats have the gerrymandering award in the past , just look at some of the maps. It’s about time Republicans “punched” back. It is a joke that Democrats are being cheated.
i also said Newsom was not personally in court but he is the top dog in the state that made the stupid regulations. Newsom also did not light the match that started the fires but he still holds some responsibility on how it was handled.
So the lie that someone told you...you'll let it stay as it is in your post.
Disenfranchising California voters doesn't do anything to address TX gerrymandering. Have you never heard 2 wrongs don't make a right? Newsom is governor of CA, not a federal position. His duty is to CA voters, and by intentionally disenfranchising CA voters he is violating his duty and showing he has no scruples.
Probably, as I am not in TX I am not as familiar with him. Nor am I fully informed about how their redistricting came about. What I am aware of is Newsom has decided to take national politics into his own hands and set in motion a plan to disenfranchise voters in the state he is supposed to be representing, and that he belongs to a party that routinely complains about voter disenfranchisement so to intentionally disenfanchise voters demonstrates a lack of integritty and principles on his part nd the part of all those who support him for it.
It addresses the stated goal of the Texas gerrymandering, which was to give Republicans more seats in the House of Representatives.
California voters voted on (and approved, by a substantial majority) Newsom's proposal - it was not enacted as a unilateral decree.
Perhaps you should read up on the issue before commenting on it, hm?
Coincidentally, Abbot did the same thing, and he did it first. He also did it without consulting his state's voters. Newsom's action was prompted by Abbot's, and California's voters agreed with it.
As pointed out, if your opponent isn't playing by the rules, continuing to follow them in the name of integrity or principles may be good optics, but it also generally means that you're going to lose.
Find out, then.
Newsome asked his constituents to vote on it first. They approved.
The county made the regulation.
No one with any sense denies that large gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic killed a lot of people.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Remember, the whole point of this process is to undermine democracy. So not surprising that Abbott would not let the people of Texas decide. On the other hand, Newsom is a democrat and therefore probably didn't consider not putting it to a vote.
The 2008 vote to create the independent redistricting committee was a change to the state constitution voted in by the voters. IIRC, the only way to change the constitution (and a few types of law, like tax laws) in California is to put things to a public vote.
No.
I'm not particularly interested in TX politics.
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. If the democrats cared about free and fair elections,, they wouldn't be moving to gerrymander an already gerrymandered state. Abbot isn't being punished by Newsom gerrymandering CA, voters in CA whose local issues are going to be drowned out by the inclusion of voter bases whose interests are far removed from the localities are the ones who are going to lose. Saying that Newsom went to the voters doesn't excuse it, because his sole intent in the plan is to make elections in CA less fair.
