BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Nationally, officials in both Texas and California are at odds for their reasons for redistricting, and Kern County is no different.

Congressman Vince Fong said the latest redistricting efforts in California are a partisan power grab by Governor Gavin Newsom that goes against the wishes of voters.

"We in California have a system that the voters of California not only created but supported multiple times. So the governor of California wants to throw out and abolish something for his political gain," Fong told 17 News.

Fong said the new proposed state map seeks to divide power from rural communities and focus it in more urban areas.

"This grab that Gavin Newsom has done, it's carving up the Central Valley. Bakersfield is carved up multiple ways, Fresno is ca

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