I wanted to share with you my Election Night speech following the passage of Prop. 50. There’s no sugarcoating it: this is a setback. Newsom has demolished our system of fair representation and imposed one of the worst gerrymanders in history.
And yet: we’ve dealt with setbacks before. After the 2021 Recall, many predicted that our movement for sanity in California would die. Just the opposite happened; it was supercharged. In the years since we have won victory after victory over Newsom and his corrupt enablers.
We overturned Newsom's gas-car ban. We cut off his high-speed rail funding. We reversed his reckless crime policies. We beat his hand-picked candidate last year by 46,000 votes. And, in the same way, we will beat his extreme gerrymander next year.
The hubris of gerrymandering, and of Newsom as Gerrymanderer-in-Chief, is the assumption that politicians can dictate election outcomes by moving lines around on a map. But as I discussed with Laura Ingraham on Fox News on Election Night, Californians still get to vote.
I’ll be running for reelection to the House next year so we can continue fighting for California. Unfortunately, my current district has been chopped into six different pieces, each part of a new district. This creates an agonizing choice of which one to run in.
I would love to hear your thoughts on what is the best course. Just reply to this email! There is also still a possibility this dilemma will be obviated, if a federal court challenge to Prop. 50 is successful or if my bill to bar mid-decade gerrymanders becomes law.
Finally, there is now no denying that Newsom is the Democratic frontrunner for President. However, when your signature issue is gerrymandering, it's a candidacy built on sand. California leads the nation in poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. That's a hard record to defend.
Our mission is now more important than ever: to save our state and spare our country the same fate.
Kevin Kiley for Congress, 9458 Treelake Road, Granite Bay, CA 95746, United States
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