Open Policy Discussion
Proposal to Reapportion California’s Congressional DistrictsGerrymandering needs to done away with at national level
Gerrymandering is a Huge problem and it needs to fixed in ALL states simultaneously otherwise we are ceding CAs rights. One fix at the national level is to increase the size of the House...
Not a fan of either selection. Rank choice very complicated for some voter to understand the concept. It also drags on the result of the votes.
Rank choice is complicated and may discourage people from voting . Multiple area voting-that too may be controversial
End Partisan Gerrymandering
Partisan Gerrymandering is one of the primary reasons for our divisive politics. When politicians choose their voters to create “safe” districts, extreme positions can be advanced by...
Support Proportional Representation and Multiparty Democracy in California
Hi Tom & Team, Our nonprofit and coalition of alternative parties in California, ProRep Coalition, would love to have a conversation with you and your team about our work towards a...
Voter Data
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Use Voter data to end Gerrymandering
Do by Census data Voter data alone NO Games NO politics NO rigging for votes Made Public Prosecute Dems abusing system OR Dems stack the deck for them to WIN & we Never WIN See the...
Fight fire with fire
It’s unfortunate but necessary for the Dems in CA to counter the extreme GOP TX gerrymander with pro Dem gerrymander, otherwise corrupt GOP will maintain control of house. Now other GOP...
In response to “Fight Fire With Fire”
n Proposition 50, California Democratic Party leaders have asked voters to approve a new map for California’s Congressional districts to “fight fire with fire,” in response to Texas...
Authoritarians in DC and Red States May Force Our Hands
Like many independents, I support our current system for determining political districts--though 10 years between map-drawing might be too long. That said, the current administration,...
Community Voices commentary submitted to local paper.
Democracy in Peril I have not been so afraid for my country in my eighty years. Not during the Cuba missile crisis; not during the Vietnam War demonstrations; not during Watergate; not...
Support for redistricting to counter Texas efforts
I support Newsom's plan. I have been a strong proponent of the redistricting commission and I believe it is the correct approach for a functioning democracy. However, the current...
fight fire with fire – support Newsom’s redistricting
I supported the California Redistricting Commission and it’s been a success. But the GOP is now playing dirty and doing a between-census extreme offensive gerrymandering of an...
Support Fair Representation Act, not gerrymandering
The 'correct' solution to the redistricting mess is to adopt electoral reform, such as that proposed in H.R. 4632 (Fair Representation Act). This act splits states into 3-5 member...
Redistricting
And let me ask what are you doing to prevent Our country becomes a Venezuela?. Igladd you are not an official party and I hope you never will.if you think what republicans are doing to...
No redistricting!
In 1967, the forebay of the the San Luis Dam was constructed at a cost of 39 million dollars ( 377 milllion in today's dollars ). It allowed water to be pumped behind the dam when power...
Yes to Newsom’s Gambit — If Truly Strategic
If Newsom's gerrymandering initiative will really work in neutralizing the Republicans' opening salvo, then I'm grudgingly for it. The country is now governed by a coalition of thugs and...
Why Partisan redistricting, in California and other Blue states, must be supported to end partisan gerrymandering in America.
Blue States have been the useful idiots to the Republican RedMap plan. To end gerrymandering, Blue states must adopt aggressive gerrymandering to counter Red state gerrymandering to save...
Why Partisan redistricting, In California and otther Blue states, must be supported to end partisan gerrymandering In america.
Blue States have been the useful idiots to the Republican RedMap plan. To end gerrymandering, Blue states must adopt aggressive gerrymandering to counter Red state gerrymandering to save...
Into the mud
I support our non-partisan commission but will back Newsom plan here regretfully . I take some comfort in the wording of the proposed Amendment and the SnapBack in 2030 To non partisan...
If someone else jump off the bridge shoukd I.
When I was in grade school, a student once copied another’s behavior simply because “someone else did it.” The teacher responded by asking, “If someone jumps off a bridge, does that mean...
Are you promoting Common Sense?
Californians voted for fair redistricting, not to changes the rules to compete in hyper partisan politics. These gerrymandering proposals are not Common Sense!
It’s not California’s job to fix Texas
So because Texas is denying representation to its citizens, California should do the same? This is the famous "leadership" that California purports to advance? The Independent Commission...
Beyond right or wrong, maybe there’s an opportunity here
I supported Brexit, not because I believed it was right for Britain, but because I saw it as an opportunity for the rest of Europe to break free from Britain. Similarly, I am minded to...
Trump Needs Some Guardrails
Hello Tom: I appreciate your concern about Newsom's proposal to redistrict California to pick up five additional Democrat house seats. In normal times, I would oppose such a plan since our...
Why bother
Majority of Cal. voters are brain dead and can't or don't understand how terrible things are in the state
Fighting Fire With Fire Just Fans the Flames
To echo something another commenter posted here: "two wrongs don't make a right". I understand there is a desire to fight fire with fire, but I don't think rewriting the CA constitution...
Don’t Rig Our Democracy to Oppose Someone Rigging Our Democracy
I completely agree with Tom here. What Texas and the other Republican states are doing is abominable, but the solution isn't to abandon our principles. There have to be other ways to fight...
If we do not find a way to counter President Trump, we may lose the chance to ever counter President Trump, or whoever is sitting in the oval
I absolutely abhor the idea of gerrymandering. I think we should start drawing a box by beginning the upper left corner of each state and draw a diagonal line until the computer says we’ve...
Supporting Newsom on this one.
Thus far it seems the opinions on this issue seem to be running about 50/50. I'll add my voice to those supporting the governor's proposal for the TEMPORARY suspension of the traditional...
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The actions taken by many politicians these days seem designed to erode our democracy. Trump, of course, and Abbott, but now Newsom and others who are jumping on the redistricting...
Leave the existing non-partison redistricting committee olone
We finally got a law passed to remove the political parties from the redistricting process. This is the ethical way to do redistricting process. I think that we should continue using this...
Goes against my principles, but…
I am all for fair district boundaries. In my opinion, In today's availability of computers and programs, even the current Ca boundaries are un-necessarily convoluted. The districts should...
Newsom doesn’t speak for ME
Gavin Newsom is not my representative he's the representative of people who don't live here and don't deserve the free handouts the people who paid for those free handouts deserve the free...
Redistricting now is critically important
I voted for the independent commission. That was when politics was normal and it was pro-democracy. But now CA has to redistrict before the 2026 mid-terms. We are on the verge of falling...
Babies and Bathwater
We The People achieved a significant victory in wresting control of the re-districting process from the Legislature, which has a built-in conflict of interest. To subvert that, and to...
Hold your nose and support the redistricting initiative
I fully support the nonpartisan California redistricting process. It is a model that should be implemented nationwide. Unfortunately, we have a President who continues to ignore and abuse...
Common Sense: Stay Out of It and let the People Vote
A Common Sense party approach to the current redistricting effort is to restrain from weighing in on either side of it. The question is to be put before the voters and we should not insult...
Support the Redistricting Plan
Every day Trump and the Republican party are either diminishing or completing taking away my constitutional rights as an American citizen. Voting for California's proposed redistricting...
Representation by Districts
Congressional Districts over the years have been distorted by party pressure to gain seats in the House. Districts boundaries should be drawn based solely on a group of adjoining cities in...
Knife Fighting with a Pencil Stub
I am aware that redistricting is Gerrymandering, but for California to ignore (and hope it goes away) the red state redistricting that is going on is taking a pencil stub to a knife fight....
Support Newsom
Newsom's proposal: 1. Is temporary 2. Would only take effect if Texas redraws their districts as requested by Trump 3. Would keep representation at the federal level fair 4. Is a legal and...
Strongly disagree with Tom Campbell on this one
First, I wholeheartedly support the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CCRC). I think such non-partisan commissions should be the law of the land. Unfortunately, they are not....
Unlawful redraw of district lines!
When California's governor and his like minded legislative supporters do things like redrawing district lines to create an even more unbalanced to the left political advantage than it...
Redistributing is a must!
I’m all for redistributing, at least as the Governor is proposing it, which seems transparent and fair. We must do what we can to combat the immoral and evil acts of Donald Trump and his...
Gerrymandering – The lesser evil
In normal times I would oppose Newsom's redistricting proposal. However, if people don't fight Trump, we won't have to worry about elections in the future since we won't have any....
Dangerous escalation
When Democrats gerrymander (see Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland, New York) the response is muted or non-existent. When Republicans do it, it's the end of Democracy. As with all wars,...
A terrible necessity
The redistricting proposal is indeed alarming. In normal times, when parties were doing normal politics, I would agree with you that it should be rejected. But we are in an extra...
We Have No Choice
The biggest threat to our nation and our democracy is MAGA and its take over of the GOP. They have demonstrated for years that they will do anything to achieve power and keep that power....
Redistricting
I’ve been concerned about the supermajority of Democrats for over a decade. While the GOP continues to eat away at their moderate base, the Democratic run legislature and Constitutional...
Eliminating CA voter fraud.
Democrats have had legalized voter fraud with Jerry Brown's vallot harvesting, the motor voter crap and the importation of illegals into sanctuary cities. Until all of that is fixed the...
Redistricting
I don't like the idea of redistricting at this point in the census cycle. I also don't like that we have a federal govt. determined to trash our Constitution and looking more and more...
Proposal to Reapportion California’s Congressional Districts
The independent, non-partisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission currently draws the lines for our Congressional delegations, once every ten years. This was a very important...