Newsom to Donors: Stop Giving Money for Redistricting Effort

Gov. Gavin Newsom tells Prop. 50 backers to stop donating: ‘We’ve raised enough’

During any campaign season, voters and nonvoters alike are inundated with ads and text messages and emails begging for money for a political cause or candidate. That’s been true for California’s special election on redistricting, only called a couple of months ago. But in a fairly unusual turn of events, Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has spearheaded the campaign in favor of mid-cycle redistricting, had a different message for donors on Tuesday, a week …

Newsom to donors: Stop giving money for redistricting effort

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) urged donors Tuesday to stop giving money to the state’s redistricting measure on the ballot this election. An email from Newsom to donors obtained by The Hill notes that the governor’s team has “hit our budget goals and raised what we need in order to pass Proposition 50.” “You can…

Newsom Tells Redistricting Donors to Stop Sending Money

“Gov. Gavin Newsom signed onto his regular Zoom call with his political brain trust last Friday as they ticked through the latest developments in the high-stakes redistricting measure headed for a vote next week,” the New York Times reports. “They were far ahead in the polls. The opposition was mostly off the airwaves. And there was plenty of money in the bank.” “Then, according to two participants in the call who shared details of the private d…

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NYT: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed onto his regular Zoom call with his political brain trust last Friday as they ticked through the latest developments in the high-stakes redistricting measure headed for a vote next week. They were far ahead… Continue reading The post “Newsom to Redistricting Donors: Stop Giving Me Money” appeared first on Election Law Blog.