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Roy Cooper didn’t officially announce his Senate run at the Dems Unity dinner in Raleigh last night, but he was all smiles, he heavily hinted at it and had his attack points against Republicans ready.
The most telling thing was him saying “stand up if you’re running for office” and after that he replied “well, I’m not sitting down am I?”
nice article re CA redistricting... It's heartening to see that most CA politicians apparently have the will to attempt this. Pelosi (and many other Dems) is sounding just like us here.
The most important thing is to write a ballot proposition (removing the Citizens Commission from drawing CD lines) that will be approved by the voters in a special election, AND HOW TO SELL THAT. Because you know that the GOP/Trump will easily spend what ever it takes to defeat it. IF it passes, THEN they can dicker about the actual CD changes...
some excerpts (fair use):
California Democrats are climbing on board with Newsom’s redistricting push
After a couple of weeks of public silence among Democratic leaders following Newsom’s trial balloon, California Democrats are jumping on board with the idea
California Democrats appear to be in lockstep in their response to Trump and Texas: Bring it on. We’re ready to go as low as you are to slow Trump’s fascistic stampede.
Pelosi added in a statement Thursday that “Democrats cannot unilaterally disarm. … I don’t like redistricting in the middle of a decade, but if that’s the game that the Republicans want to play, we have to make sure that they know that we’re going to put everything on the table.”
“In California, we’re saying to the Texans, you shouldn’t be going down this path. You want to go down this path, we’ll go down together,” Pelosi said Wednesday.
Even some California House Democrats whose district boundaries may change wildly under a new map support fighting back. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, who might see his solidly blue district stretch all the way into more conservative parts of Orange County under one unofficial proposed map being circulated online among redistricting experts musing about possible changes, is on board.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/democrats-newsom-redistricting-20784400.php