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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Local lawmakers are reacting to Governor Newsom's program to redistrict California.
The program - assistance democrats drawback much US House seats successful the 2026 midterm, but section republicans are calling foul. So, the Fresno County Registrar of Voters is prepping for a engaged twelvemonth ahead.
“Our lines are beauteous retired of whack already. And truthful it's going to alteration up and confuse adjacent much people,” Assemblymember David Tangipa said.
Republican Assemblymember David Tangipa is against Governor Gavin Newsom’s telephone for legislature redistricting.
“17% of this authorities is represented by Republicans, adjacent though this authorities votes astatine astir 40% blimpish oregon Republican.”
The governor’s property league continued Newsom's feud with President Donald Trump.
“As Senator Schiff said, Donald Trump, you person poked the carnivore and we volition punch back,” Governor Gavin Newsom said.
But, Tangipa said, Californians didn’t inquire for that.
“I had assemblage gathering aft assemblage gathering and uncovering businesses and uncovering people. They mentioned implicit and implicit and implicit again that California is excessively expensive, excessively hard to unrecorded in, and it feels unsafe astatine times. Not erstwhile did they say, 'Well, what are we going to bash astir redistricting?'” Tangipa said.
So now, it's each hands connected platform for the Fresno County Clerk’s bureau up of a Nov. 4 peculiar election.
“Any peculiar election, countywide peculiar election, it's going to beryllium a just magnitude of work. This circumstantial predetermination is astir a taxable which could past person a small other enactment afterwards,” Fresno County Clerk James Kus said.
Because anterior to Aug. 14's announcement, the region was lone preparing for the Del Rey Community Service District election.
“To present person this countywide peculiar predetermination beryllium added connected to that. That's a large displacement successful what we're doing,” Kus said. He added he’s assured the region tin grip the caller predetermination and imaginable representation changes.
“We person acquisition with it. We're fortunate capable to person done thing akin to this precocious with the metropolis of Clovis having implemented caller metropolis assembly lines,” Kus said.
Governor Newsom is assured the radical of California volition marque their voices heard astatine the ballot box.
“We’re putting the maps connected the ballot and we’re giving the powerfulness to the people. This volition beryllium the archetypal redistricting that’s been ever done. That’s the difference,” Newsom proclaimed.
But Tangipa thinks it's each a governmental game.
“Texas was really sued to alteration their maps and their legislature has the quality to alteration their maps. What California has to bash is unit an predetermination that outgo implicit $200 cardinal for a occupation that cipher asked to solve,” Tangipa said.
Kus besides said erstwhile November's peculiar predetermination is called, they won't discarded clip releasing accusation connected caller elector halfway locations and predetermination enactment opportunities.
