{"id":172115,"date":"2025-08-24T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172115\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:25:12","slug":"what-newsom-legislature-want-to-do-just-isnt-right-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172115\/","title":{"rendered":"What Newsom, Legislature want to do just isn\u2019t right \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cDon\u2019t copy Trump bullying\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/08\/22\/two-potent-reasons-to-oppose-newsoms-plan-to-copy-trumps-bullying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aug. 22<\/a>): Attention, Gov. Newsom and the California Legislature: Remember the book \u201cAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten\u201d by Robert Fulghum? One of the things we learned early in life is that \u201ctwo wrongs do not make a right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We also know, from many, many historical examples, that \u201cthe road to hell is paved with good intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I implore Newsom and the Legislature to drop their terrible redistricting plan. I will vote against it and will advise everyone I know to do the same. Because it simply isn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael-Leonard Creditor, Bay Park<\/p>\n<p>For over 200 years, gerrymandering has been practiced by states to advance one political party\u2019s interests over the opposing party. In 2008, California set up a special commission to fairly draw district maps for the state.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Democratic Party (46% of the state electorate) has 83% of California\u2019s 52 seats in the House of Representatives. Our governor has observed that Texas is redistricting to advantage its Republican representation in the House. Our governor hopes to offset Texas by spending a quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer money to possibly improve California\u2019s Democratic representation in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the way voters really want their tax dollars to be spent?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Burgert, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cDon\u2019t copy Trump bullying\u201d (Aug. 22): Attention, Gov. Newsom and the California Legislature: Remember the book \u201cAll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-172115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115084677927250597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}