What Prop 50's passage means for Central Valley communities

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - California voters person spoken. The state’s autarkic redistricting committee is suspended until 2030.

“No crowns, nary thrones, nary kings. That’s what this triumph represents,” Governor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.

Prop 50 passed overwhelmingly, giving the authorities support to usage a gerrymandered legislature map benefiting democrats.

The representation is projected to crook 5 reddish districts blue: 1, 3, 41, 48, and 22, wherever Congressman David Valadao represents parts of the southbound valley.

Valadao posted a connection reacting to the ballot Wednesday.

It says successful part, “Governor Newsom and the supermajority of Sacramento democrats sold Prop 50 arsenic a combat for democracy, but successful reality, it was ne'er thing much than a calculated powerfulness drawback to cement their control.”

Fresno State Political Science Professor Thomas Holyoke says the redistricting volition person a important interaction connected vale residents.

“All of a sudden, immoderate radical could find themselves successful different legislature territory unexpectedly, and their neighbors crossed the thoroughfare mightiness beryllium successful a wholly antithetic legislature territory each of a sudden,” Holyoke said.

The caller representation volition modulation Fresno from 3 to 4 districts, and the metropolis of Clovis from 1 to 3 districts.

“Their irrational hatred of Donald Trump was acold stronger than thing they felt for their chap Californians,” Clovis Mayor Pro Tem Diane Pearce said.

Clovis volition present beryllium divided betwixt districts 5, 20, and 21, represented by Tom McClintock, Jim Costa, and Vince Fong.

“When you person a request successful Clovis, present you person to get 3 antithetic members of Congress to hold to bring that forward,” Pearce said. “It conscionable dilutes that voice. You spot the aforesaid happening with agrarian Californians, where, you know, you person the metropolis of Avenal successful Kings County that's present going to person a typical from San Jose?”

The caller representation volition interaction the 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections.

Then, successful 2030, the redistricting committee volition clasp a census and redraw the maps erstwhile again.

Holyoke says, up of adjacent year’s midterm election, “If things proceed connected the way that they have, yeah, it'll astir apt beryllium a wipeout for the Republicans. But, you know, a batch tin hap successful a year.”