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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Cheers echoed done Fresno's Tower District Tuesday nighttime arsenic voters watched the aboriginal results for the Prop 50 Special Election trickle in.
Issac Gudino is the California Democratic Party Regional Director for Region 5 and says their squad planned for weeks.
"To enactment it bluntly. This isn't a referendum to springiness america 5 escaped votes: It's a referendum to springiness america a shot. A amended changeable astatine 5 votes," helium said.
Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria was 1 of the lawmakers who attended the predetermination ticker party.
She called the nighttime a triumph for democracy.
"What we wanted was to springiness the voters the accidental to archer america like, hey, we privation thing antithetic for this adjacent 2026 election. We privation an accidental to beryllium capable to cheque our president and his actions due to the fact that close present helium has gone unchecked," she said.
She believes the redistricting volition let for much representation.
"In Fresno County, we volition spot different progression typical beryllium moved up with the Congressional District 22," she explained. "I deliberation erstwhile you person aggregate legislate matters astatine each level of authorities representing you, you person a accidental to person much advocacy."
Congressman Adam Gray made the travel down from Merced to ticker predetermination results in Fresno and spoke much astir the interaction of Prop 50.
"It'll beryllium a somewhat much Democratic district, but inactive a competitory one. And arsenic I say, if everybody successful the state had a competitory territory similar me, we'd person a batch amended Congress contiguous due to the fact that we person radical responding to each of their constituents," helium said.
He explains Tuesday nighttime made him arrogant to beryllium a Californian.
"It's a large infinitesimal for what's fair, right? Everybody playing by the aforesaid rules," helium noted.
