"A committee opposing Proposition 50, which would replace districts drawn by an independent commission with ones crafted by partisans, plans to spend $1 million per day airing the ad statewide. Schwarzenegger describes the ballot measure as one that does not favor voters but is in the interest of entrenched politicians. "That's what they want to do is take us backwards. This is why it is important for you to vote no on Proposition 50," the Hollywood celebrity and former governor says in the ad, which was filmed last week when he spoke to USC students. "The Constitution does not start with 'We, the politicians.' It starts with 'We, the people.' ... Democracy - we've got to protect it, and we've got to go and fight for it.""
"Redistricting is the redrawing of congressional boundaries that typically occurs once a decade following the U.S. census to account for population shifts. The process rarely attracts the attention it has this year because of a heated battle to determine control of a closely divided Congress in the final two years of President Trump's tenure. After Trump urged Texas and other GOP-led states to redraw their congressional districts earlier this year to boost the number of Republicans in the House, California Democrats, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, countered by putting a rare mid-decade redistricting on a special-election November ballot that would likely boost the number of Democrats in the body."
Arnold Schwarzenegger appears in a new statewide television ad urging Californians to vote no on Proposition 50, which would replace congressional districts drawn by an independent commission with ones drawn by partisan legislators. A committee opposing Proposition 50 plans to spend $1 million per day airing the ad. The ad frames the measure as benefiting entrenched politicians rather than voters and invokes the Constitution's opening line, appealing to protect democracy. The redistricting fight follows President Trump's calls for Republican-led states to redraw maps and a California Democratic move to pursue mid-decade redistricting to potentially increase Democratic House seats.
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