Editor,
Since late August, we have seen a barrage of rationalization from California’s elected leadership, led by our blue-eyed governor. It’s painful to read these pleas, that we should swallow our ethics and return to the gerrymandering we worked so hard to eradicate, because now there is “justification.”
Well, I agree that Texans shouldn’t be gerrymandered into politically manipulated districts - but People, this has been going on nationwide for over a century. It’s not a MAGA-lead partisan scheme, just a regular partisan scheme. California was doing it too until just 15 years ago.
So how is screwing with California voters a “balance” to Texas? So that California can “save our democracy” by further diminishing Republican representation in a state that is already sending far more Demo