A Republican lawmaker in California proposed a resolution to split the state into two distinct parts in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps.
State Assemblymember James Gallagher, the Republican leader of the California Assembly, will introduce Assembly Joint Resolution 23 to create a new U.S. state.
The new state would include 35 inland California counties.
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Calling it a “two-state solution,” Gallagher says the resolution will protect rural voters who he says will be silenced by Newsom’s redistricting plan.
“The people of inland California have been overlooked for too
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