Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “evil” ploy to redraw the state’s U.S. House maps — via gerrymandering — before the midterm elections.
Schwarzenegger said elections should not be stolen through the manipulation of voter district maps and vowed to block Newsom’s attempts to do so.
“He calls gerrymandering evil, and he means that,” the Hollywood superstar’s representative, Daniel Ketchell, told Politico on Monday.
“He thinks it’s truly evil for politicians to take power from people.”
In 2008, Schwarzenegger — the last Republican governor of California — spearheaded the passage of Proposition 11, a law that established an independent commission to draw electoral boundaries for the state legislature.
In 2010, Proposition 20 extended the independent commission’s authority to draw
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