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>Can't wait for your salt mining when this passes in Cali in November.
It would have to survive a ballot measure, and while Newsome is talking about it publicly, the real campaign for the issue hasn't started yet and when we get close to November you're going to have massive liberal/Democrat voices trying to moderate and hit against the removal of the independent commission to allow the redistricting measure. It might pass, sure, but it faces a WAY steeper climb to that point than Texas just passing a Congress vote that was always going to win anyway.
And also, Democrats have tried to do this thing where they "start the clock" on the gerrymandering issue literally with Texas last month. So as far as the messaging is concerned, gerrymandering has NEVER happened, it doesn't exist, and ONLY Texas has ever done this thus meaning they threw the first punch and started this fight, and now it's the Democrat states' job to finish it. But the problem with that is, Democrat states all did their gerrymandering, and then locked it behind a commission, meaning they literally have to amend their state constitutions to do it again.
Republican states don't, they can just vote on it in chambers, win, and be done with no risk. So it's not really a fair game being played here. PLUS, you have the Voting Rights Act almost certainly hitting the Supreme Court for review soon, definitely before midterms, and if they (and they will) strike down race-based districting, it's over for Democrat states anyway.