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Lies, damn lies and Rob Bonta’s ballot labels
September 22, 2025
Texas Republicans are redrawing their congressional maps, so Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies say they must do the same. But unlike Texas, California has a voter-approved Citizens Redistricting Commission constitutionally charged with drawing political boundaries, so the state Legislature is powerless to redraw the maps without amending the state Constitution. It has to go to the voters. Enter California’s hyper-partisan Attorney General Rob Bonta, who has just issued a deceptive ballot label for Proposition 50, the measure seeking to abolish the congressional district maps prepared by the Independent Redistricting Commission. Did anyone expect anything else? Here’s what Bonta’s ballot...