Comments on: Letter: Biggest power grab yet. https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2025/09/04/letter-biggest-power-grab-yet/ In-depth, locally-produced coverage of the Central Valley. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:43:55 -0700 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: DW https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2025/09/04/letter-biggest-power-grab-yet/#comment-157406 DW Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:40:38 +0000 https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/?p=52549#comment-157406 In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2025/09/04/letter-biggest-power-grab-yet/#comment-156342">Jim Reeves</a>. Texas is just responding to the gerrymandering that blue states have been doing for years. This is one reason California Democrats have enjoyed a super majority for years so Texas isn't doing something that Democrats haven't done for years. This is the reason voters wanted a non partisan commission to draw the lines in the first place. The only reason that Newsom gets his way all of the time is because Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. No wonder California has is circling the drain. In reply to Jim Reeves.

Texas is just responding to the gerrymandering that blue states have been doing for years. This is one reason California Democrats have enjoyed a super majority for years so Texas isn’t doing something that Democrats haven’t done for years. This is the reason voters wanted a non partisan commission to draw the lines in the first place. The only reason that Newsom gets his way all of the time is because Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. No wonder California has is circling the drain.

]]> By: Just me. https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2025/09/04/letter-biggest-power-grab-yet/#comment-156621 Just me. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:56:30 +0000 https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/?p=52549#comment-156621 Newsom? You mean the same Newsom who virtually spit in the face of every Ca citizen by jlaunting Covid regulations that his own government foisted on the rest of us? Of coarse he and the rest of his whore Democrats want to take more power! Newsom? You mean the same Newsom who virtually spit in the face of every Ca citizen by jlaunting Covid regulations that his own government foisted on the rest of us? Of coarse he and the rest of his whore Democrats want to take more power!

]]> By: Jim Reeves https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2025/09/04/letter-biggest-power-grab-yet/#comment-156342 Jim Reeves Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:13:29 +0000 https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/?p=52549#comment-156342 Perhaps Mr. Magsig can explain how a vote of the people to make a temporary change to the state’s constitution “blatantly disregards the will of the voters”. Seems to me like it will be the will of the voters if it passes. And if it’s not, and it doesn’t pass, then no change occurs. On top of all of that, all Magsig and Republicans have to do to stop it is get Texas to rescind their reapportionment mid-cycle. If Texas (and some other GOP-controlled states) don’t try to break the rules mid-game, then California won’t have to respond. Easy-peasy. Perhaps Mr. Magsig can explain how a vote of the people to make a temporary change to the state’s constitution “blatantly disregards the will of the voters”. Seems to me like it will be the will of the voters if it passes. And if it’s not, and it doesn’t pass, then no change occurs.
On top of all of that, all Magsig and Republicans have to do to stop it is get Texas to rescind their reapportionment mid-cycle. If Texas (and some other GOP-controlled states) don’t try to break the rules mid-game, then California won’t have to respond. Easy-peasy.

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