Gov. Newsom signs ACA 8, redistricting on ballot. (Photo: gov.ca.gov)
Gov. Newsom Signs Shady Mid-Decade Redistricting Legislation
‘In order to save Democracy we must dismantle it’
By Katy Grimes, August 22, 2025 8:21 am
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the 3-measure package on mid-decade Congressional redistricting: Senate Bill 280, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, and Assembly Bill 604. ACA 8 will put a measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would redraw the state’s congressional map to favor Democrats, ostensibly in response to Texas redistricting efforts.
As the Globe noted Thursday during Assembly floor debate on ACA 8, Trump Derangement Syndrome is on full display today in the California Assembly. Accusations of “Trump is a fascist,” to “Trump is an authoritarian,” to Trump is a threat to Democracy,” “Trump is destroying the health care system,” to “Trump is the reason my golf game sucks,” were expressed by nearly all Democrats who spoke on the bills.
The vote to pass ACA 8 was entirely along partisan lines, Democrats 57, Republicans 20. The Senate passed it in a 30–8 vote. Gov. Newsom signed ACA 8 into law shortly after.
But the floor discussion/debate became tedious. Worse than tedious. Pabulum. The “Trump is to blame for everything” exposes that Democrats have nothing to offer the people, and must blame someone for their own failure to read the room, and their complete disconnect with 40 million Californians.
“Assembly passes ACA 8, 57-20 to place redistricting on the November ballot. Remember these votes,” I posted on X.
The session was fraught with partisan antics from the Democrat supermajority.
“Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) called SB 280 a political stunt to prop up Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign. Says Dems can’t win on the truth. He has a point. SB 280 calls a statewide special election November 4, 2025 for ACA 8, which allows a mid-decade redistricting, setting aside the voter approved California Redistricting Commission.”
“Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher is telling Democrats to stop claiming Democracy is over. And he’s exposing their actions. ‘in order to save Democracy we must dismantle it’ he says they are doing, “which always led to despotism and authoritarianism – you are giving away power that belongs to the people.’ Of course, Democrats cut his mic. Then lectured him on proper decorum in the Assembly.”
“In order to save Democracy we must dismantle it.”
Gallagher is right.
“Assemblyman David Tangipa warns that SB 280 is a bill that no one wants, and is political gamesmanship. It does not address the cost of housing in CA, or the lack of hospital care in his district, or any of the issues important to Californians.”
Tangipa is also right.
As the Globe reported:
Elections Committee Chairwoman Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz), a former elections official, who yesterday said Democrats are “building the most transparent process in the country,” cut the microphone of the Vice Chairwoman Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo (R-Tulare) when she asked who drew the proposed gerrymandered Congressional maps.
Assemblyman Tangipa asked about all of the co-authors on the bill who may have a vested interest in the newly drawn maps. He then proposed amendments to ACA 8 stating that any member of the legislature who votes for the ACA cannot run for Congress in any of the newly proposed congressional districts.
Vice Chairwoman Macedo expressed untold frustration to Chairwoman Pellerin that she was given only a few minutes to ask her questions of the bill presenter Assemblyman Marc Berman, standing in for the bill’s author, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas. Chairwoman Pellerin cut off Macedo’s questions as well as Tangipa’s, and repeated ad nauseam, “I have allowed you plenty of times to ask your questions,” and then screamed, “Mr. Tangipa, you are out of order” several times, and cut his mic when he insisted there were many more questions that needed answers. “We are done with questions,” Chairwoman Pellerin declared.
Tangipa posted on X:
My mic was shut off. We don’t know who drew the maps. I was told “because I say so” is acceptable. And I had <24 hrs to get answers for 40M Californians. If they won’t give transparency, we’ll find it. Sunlight is the best disinfectant—time to expose Sacramento.
“I just signed the Election Rigging Response Act to put Proposition 50 up for a vote on November 4th,” Newsom posted to X. “The people of California will have the power to push back against Texas and any other state that obeys @realDonaldTrump‘s demand to rig the next election.”
“Democrats acted to solely benefit personal political ambitions. The facade about it being about other states came down when they removed the ‘trigger mechanism’ that this scheme would only take effect in response to actions in other states,” Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), who is a target of Democrats for redistricting, said in a statement. “Even more, the fact that the Democrats in the legislature refuse to acknowledge who drew these maps should make clear to anyone that this is crafted for termed-out state legislators to have tailor made seats in Congress, not equal representation. No one can look at these maps—one with a district spreading from Modoc to Marin, another shaped like a giant elephant with a trunk to bring in downtown Sacramento with Tahoe, or sticking Lassen and Plumas counties way over on the Nevada border with Santa Rosa in a coastal county—and say they appear credible. Do you really think the former senior environmental lawyer for NRDC is going to protect or represent ranchers, farmers, or water users?”
Gov. Newsom and California Democrats could live to rue the day they put this on the November ballot. And because they won’t read the room, it’s all they have.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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No surprise this passed. The Dems are so desperate. Even if voters pass this good chance it will be shot down by the DOJ for obvious disenfranchisement issues. And/or it will kick off a redistricting war between states. Hopefully enough voters in this state see this for what it is. But given how many idiotic voters this state has, not really hopeful. Either way this is going to be a $250 million boondoggle.
All the highway signs when entering California need to be updated to “Welcome to Commiefornia”.
So there you have it. Our CA dictatorial class — who can’t even be bothered, by the way, to rise above their cliche-ridden crapola or be the least bit interesting — got what they wanted. And readers here saw with their own eyes much of what happened. A few snippets of video from the HEARING of the other day showed us all we needed to know. Then Newsom and his Sheep shoved this through and shoved this down the throats of Californians as though they were doing it bodily with a heavy-duty toilet plunger. You know, the plumber’s tool that Newsom himself has no idea how to use or what its actual purpose is.
We’ve seen a lot of disgusting totalitarian events in this state courtesy of the so-called Democrat politicians but this might be the WORST of all, and that is REALLY saying something.
Really hoping that the talented people out there who are good at this stuff would review yesterday’s assembly floor session, produce some choice snippets of these idiots’ back-stabbing tyrannical stupidity and blast it out on their social media. Who knows, maybe it has already happened or is already happening and there is a treasure trove now posted on X and elsewhere. But EVERYONE needs to SEE this stuff; first California voters and then as well the rest of the country:
https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-floor-session-20250821
NOTE: As usual with govt-produced purposely awful, backward, and unworkable media and video, I couldn’t even WATCH the darn thing without it being buffered to death, and I sure as heck couldn’t download it without doing damage to my computer. What’s more if appears they are already trying to purge or redirect-into-oblivion the worst of it, as shown when I tried to follow a simple Katy Grimes link above and was sent instead down an all-too-familiar Government-Crafted Kafka-Meets-Alice-in-Wonderland Rabbit Hole.
All of this, every BIT of it, is absolutely shameful, wholly outrageous, and completely unacceptable.
As you know.
Below take a look at a little 3-minute pick-me-up answer video to CA’s seemingly-rotten situation from the New York Post.
California’s version of the NY Post — the California Post — is coming our way next year.
NOTHING can beat the California Globe if you ask me but really looking forward to the west coast version of the NY Post as a supplement to the CA Globe:
“Gavin Newsom’s Redistricting Retaliation Scheme is a Loser for Californians AND Democrats”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32t5UUsw0Q
Thanks for posting @Show.
Agree with your sentiments.
It is amazing we have to participate in this charade and pay for it through our taxes!
Their lust for power is destructive to the citizens of this state and country.
I hope this fails bigly!
Yes, TDS is alive and well in the California Capitol!
You said it, Cali Girl. At least they’ve been TOLD that invoking the name “Trump” has magical powers.
Side Note: Kinda surprised this thing hasn’t been renamed “The Election Rigging Act” by sensible people by now. But maybe it has been somewhere.
You just named it, right here, right now.
I would advise these lefties to stop invoking Trump’s name.
If they say it 3 times, he just might appear and hurt their chances of “ saving democracy” 😂
No kidding, CG.
Right after this video played, another video “A Conversation with California Gavin Newsom” came up. I shut that puppy down FAST. I didn’t want to lose my dinner.
Really. No one wants to look at that.
Look at the top photo of Hair-gel Hitler Newsom smirking like an evil reptilian warlock surrounded by his coven of demonic Democrats. In the rear is Assembly Speaker Robert “Cartel” Rivas who is looking down so as not to see his evil eyes that look like dark pits of hell. As usual, creepy Sen. Scott Wiener standing in the background looking like he just stepped out of his crypt and is that Rep. Zoe Lofgren standing over Newsom’s shoulder? One of her staffers must have tamed and combed her hair after she flew into the spirit cooking session on her broom? Next to her is the mean and obnoxious Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin who reminiscent of a what a Nazi concentration camp guard would be like? She looks a bit pale, puffy and bloated? Maybe she’s in need of a little adrenochrome to perk her up?
Perhaps the Democrat coven’s spirit cooking spells are no longer working like they used to so they’ve resorted to this illegal redistricting scheme as they desperately cling to power?
How GREAT would an animated version of this description be?
Think about it, TJ 🙂 It’s very possible you could soon buy your OWN $9.1M house in Marin County.
LOL–maybe AI could create it?
In the meantime, here’s a short AI clip showing Hair-gel Newsom cruising around LA after destroying it:
https://rumble.com/v6x8jai-gavin-newsom-definitely-destroyed-california.html
YIKES! ha ha
So, who is the infantile one here?
Triggered? Maybe go to your Democrat safe space and cry?
Nope, not Zoe.
I would like to know who that ostensibly xx person is that’s shooting bedroom eyes directly at Wiener.
LOL, @TJ.
Your descriptors are spot on!
Thanks for the chuckle.
Member Aguiar-Curry
04?
Just guessing that’s Gruber’s official Third Comintern Commemorative wall clock, that causes contact dermatitis, on his least leftist wrist.
“Dems can’t win on the truth” – that’s rich coming from a Republican. Trump is scared witless (not that he has much to begin with) that his plummeting popularity will send the House back to Democrats. He ordered his little lapdog Abbott to rig the map for him. The truth is the majority of Americans can’t stand Trump.
Epstein knew exactly what Trump is, which is why Donny had him, uhh, taken off the playing field.
Here’s hoping Trump goes the same way asap.
Delusional. Hair-gel Hitler Newsom is dyslexic dimwit with plummeting approval in California and ZERO popularity around the country. His bitchy rapid response queens like Robert are desperately and unsuccessfully trying to prop him up.
Y’all are missing the point by a mile. The issue is Trump’s abuse of power and how it can be stopped. If you want to call that ‘TDS’ go right ahead – it stands for ‘Trump Disappears Soon (we all pray)’.
The issue is that Hair-gel Hitler Newsom and his coven of Marxist Democrat demons have abused and misappropriated power like authoritarian and totalitarian dictators. They’ve made a complete mess of the once great state of California. Newsom’s bitchy rapid response queens like “Robert” are failing miserably at trying to prop up their dyslexic dimwit leader Newsom because most Californians are fed up with him.
Speaking of ‘safe spaces’, I noticed no one else on this fun site seems to want to use their own name to comment. You shouldn’t be ashamed to advertise your ignorance – I’m not 😉
Hair-gel Hitler’s bitchy rapid response queens are free to use their REAL names when posting, but no one is foolish enough to believe that’s your real name. Since most of Newsom’s staff are mixed up gender fluid Democrats, did you start out as a Roberta and then changed your name to Robert after you transitioned…or are you planning to transition from Robert to become Roberta?
TJ, do you mean ‘queen’ as in Lindsey Graham? Because he is gay and I am not (gay).
Why shouldn’t I use my own name? Should I be afraid of Trump’s thugs?
He released J6 criminals from jail so he would have his own pathetic posse – good for him.
Come on, TACO Jones, or whatever your name is, you can do better bitter than that.
Hair-gel Hitler Newsom has coven of bitchy queens in his Press Office and on his Rapid Response media team who post their nasty attacks trying to divert attention from Newsom’s criminality and prop him up just like you do. Newsom’s Deputy Director for Rapid Response, Brandon Richards (he/him | 🏳️🌈 bi+), is one of those bitchy queens who is always contacting Katy Grimes. You have a lot in common and maybe he/him is your boss? Being a bitchy queen is who you are as a Newsom Democrat. Now run along and go get your nails done.
(https://californiaglobe.com/fl/gov-newsom-and-ca-democrats-are-turning-the-california-republic-into-a-tyrannical-california-autocracy/)
TDS is not just for Democrats anymore:
Trump
Dies
Soon!
He already looks and acts (and stinks, so they say) like a zombie, so maybe he already passed
So the Guber keeps it classy by stabbing his own residents in the back, for what somebody in Texas did.
This won’t achieve the result he expects.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/time-boondoggle-die-house-committee-launches-probe-californias-high-speed-rail