Charles Munger Jr., center, at the California Republican Party convention in Sacramento, California, on March 3, 2013. Rich Pedroncelli/AP/File

This isn’t the first time Charles Munger Jr. has fought to safeguard California’s independent redistricting.

When a suit filed by Arizona Republicans to disband their state’s commission threatened to topple California’s five-year-old panel, Munger rallied his former allies and braced for battle.

“I’m a redistricting reform zealot,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2015 .

Now, Munger is launching a new crusade, squaring off against Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats in a November race that could reshape the rest of President Donald Trump’s term and the future of gerrymandering reform.

Newsom is leading the push to convince voters to

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