Arnold Schwarzenegger is vowing to come out of retirement to play a starring role opposing Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to scrap the state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission. More than 60 percent of Californians approved the commission in 2010, which was Arnold’s last year as governor.
Newsom says that this November, he plans to put a measure on the ballot asking voters to approve a new set of congressional districts. They will have been carefully crafted by the overwhelmingly Democratic legislature to force out of office up to five of California’s nine remaining Republican House members. Currently Democrats have a 43–9 majority in the delegation.
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