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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - California Democrats continued talks astir legislature redistricting Wednesday successful an effort to combat Texas Republicans' ain efforts to redistrict the Lone Star State.
The program successful the Texas legislature, presently connected clasp with galore Democrats fleeing the state, aims to assistance unafraid 5 GOP seats to summation the party's vantage successful the House.
In California, authorities Democrats could retaliate by boosting the fig of left-leaning voters successful each district.
"We're not going to rotation implicit and we're going to combat occurrence with fire," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
Newsom and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff accidental they cannot basal by if Texas moves guardant to alteration the legislature landscape.
"If they spell guardant with that, past different states, bluish states, are going to person to respond. So, California is responding, and I deliberation we request to respond," Schiff said.
As for the seats that could impact, Democrats are besides aiming for 5 successful particular.
Those see districts held by Republican representatives Darrell Issa, Kevin Kiley, Ken Calvert, Doug LaMalfa, and Central Valley Congressman David Valadao, who presently occupies the state's 22nd Congressional District spot - a blue-leaning district, arsenic is, according to Fresno State Political Science Prof. Thomas Holyoke.
"Valadao conscionable happens to beryllium a Republican who keeps winning successful this Democratic district," Holyoke said. "So, I'm not rather definite what they're truly going to bash to District 22 to marque it adjacent much Democrat."
Holyoke says portion he's not definite precisely what this could look like, helium says it astir apt won't beryllium casual for Newsom and institution to accomplish, due to the fact that the autarkic voter-approved California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
"For the politician to deliberately gerrymander districts, helium fundamentally has to get the nationalist to acceptable speech the autarkic redistricting commission, truthful it tin beryllium turned backmost implicit to the legislature," Holyoke said.
Newsom says, if helium has to, helium volition telephone a peculiar predetermination that would look connected ballots successful November.
However, GOP voters successful the CA-22 aren't having it.
Vernon Costa, the Chairman of the Republican Party of Kings County, which makes up a ample portion of the territory and includes the City of Hanford, sent a connection speechmaking successful part, "This isn't astir fairness oregon practice -- it's astir rigging the strategy to fastener successful one-party rule." Costa would spell connected to say, "Newsom's program is conscionable different illustration of Sacramento authorities putting enactment implicit people."
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to Rep. David Valadao, but helium was not disposable for comment.
