Don’t fall for GOPmegadonor’s mailers
Currently, a four-page advert printed on shiny paper with the title “Weakening Our Democracy Process, a Threat to California’s Landmark Election Reform” has been distributed in mailboxes to voters. It’s asking to vote “no” within the particular election concerning the redistricting course of.
Voters ought to be conscious that the most important donor for this marketing campaign is Charles T. Munger, a billionaire who has contributed to very conservative causes — together with in opposition to reproductive rights — for the previous 25 years.
Let’s not ignore that if Texas had not began the method of redrawing its electoral map, on the request of our president and never on the authorized time (census years), California wouldn’t have responded by doing the identical.
Brigitte BastrentaPleasant Hill
Venture 2025 recreation planwas a long-time coming
Donald Trump doesn’t need you to learn this letter. Whether or not a Republican, Democrat or Unbiased voter, the define of the plan the MAGA motion is utilizing to maneuver the nation towards authoritarianism is clearly represented within the guide written by New York Instances Bestselling creator Tim Snyder. The MAGA get together didn’t simply provide you with the Venture 2025 doc by likelihood.
The venture was rigorously researched and developed upon a basis traditionally used within the Nineteen Thirties within the international locations of Germany, Poland and Russia. Right now, MAGA is placing the Nineteen Thirties plan into motion in 2025.
The comparisons are vivid.
The previous will repeat itself until we be taught from it, perceive it and act upon it to keep up democracy. Please learn “On Tyranny” by Tim Snyder, out there at your public library.
Robert CelesteFremont
Newsom is actingto defend democracy
Throughout the Constitutional Conference, the framers reached an settlement, referred to as the Connecticut Compromise, that established a two-part legislative department. One department (Senate) favors smaller, much less populated states by offering equal illustration as bigger states, and one department (Home of Representatives) is proportioned in accordance with a state’s inhabitants. Particular person single-member Home districts didn’t exist till the Apportionment Act of 1842.
Barry GardinHayward
Newsom ought to takefight to pink states
The bigger level, although, is that an actual fighter is somebody who represents everybody on this nation, irrespective of the place they dwell.
Anthony PahnkeOakland
State GOP shouldcondemn pink states
California’s Republican management didn’t object when the Republican-packed Supreme Court docket neutered the Voting Rights Act or approved partisan redistricting. They by no means complain when pink states gerrymander for energy. They didn’t protest Donald Trump’s name for early redistricting to eradicate Democratic seats, Texas’ GOP governor calling a particular session to remap there or the Florida governor’s early gerrymandering proposal.
If Republicans don’t need redistricting right here, they need to inform Texas, Florida, Ohio and different pink states to cease their bare energy grabs. That may cease the set off right here. That is firmly in Republican fingers, and California’s GOP ought to use its voice to cease it.
Chris ConradEl Sobrante
