Gavin Newsom is preparing to rig the vote on his Redistricting Sham. Last year, he tried and failed to do the same thing with Prop. 36. Our public safety initiative passed overwhelmingly despite several Newsom schemes to disenfranchise voters.🧵
Scheme 1: The Poison Pill
Prop. 36 qualified for the ballot because a million California voters signed a petition. Yet Newsom said, "I don't think there's a need to have it on the ballot." He tried to get the sponsors to remove it, and they refused. So he came up with a poison pill that would make it impossible for the measure to pass.
The plan involved passing a package of bills through the Supermajority Legislature that were supposedly tough-on-crime, then adding a very strange provision: It said those bills would be automatically repealed if voters passed Prop. 36 in November. The point was to create a pretext for Newsom to lie to voters and say Prop. 36 was actually a soft-on-crime measure because it would reverse these just-passed bills.
Most assuredly, if this plan had worked, then the first sentence of Prop. 36's ballot description would have been along these lines: "Weakens penalties for theft," even though the whole purpose of the initiative was to strengthen penalties for theft. Newsom wanted to fool voters into the thinking Yes was No and No was Yes.
This is exactly what he's doing with the Redistricting Sham. The first sentence of the "Yes" description will read: "Retains Citizens Redistricting Commission," even though the entire point is to get rid of the Commission.
Ultimately, Newsom's "poison pill" scheme failed when it proved too corrupt for even the Supermajority in the Legislature.
Jan 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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