(21 Aug 2025)
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Sacramento, California – 21 August 2025
1. California Assembly in session at California State Capitol building
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D) Davis:
"But once Republicans and other states started stacking the deck with mid-decade maps designed to rig the 2026 election, we had no choice but to act. We didn’t start this fight. We’ve said that numerous times. And we’re not going to roll over. We have to meet the moment. AB 604 lays out our new congressional districts, but only if voters approve ACA 8."
3. Vote billboard showing assemblymembers’ names
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Assemblymember Carl DeMaio (R) San Diego:
"Did you respect the vote of the people who put article 21 in our state constitution and said you shouldn’t have the ability to draw maps? You’re drawing a map in violation of the state constitution. You don’t care about what the voters said. You’re disregarding it from 2010."
5. Lawmakers sitting at desks during debate
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Assemblymember Heather Hadwick (R) Redding:
"These redistricting efforts divide my district into pieces, splitting apart communities that share history, geography, and real human connection. How does Modoc County belong in a district with Marin and the Golden Gate Bridge? These counties are 400 miles apart and separated by two mountain ranges."
7. Front of Assembly room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Assemblymember Heather Hadwick (R) Redding:
"This plan is a violation of what little public trust we have left with Californians. It’s expensive, it’s rushed, and it’s done without the consent of the very, very people that we claim to be protecting. And if it can happen here, it can’t happen anywhere. And I don’t agree that it should happen anywhere,"
9. Lawmakers waiting for vote
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Assemblymember Catherine Stefani (D) San Francisco:
"And it’s going to get worse and you’re going to get more and it’s not going to be on us because we are doing everything we can in California to stop it. We’re not doing this to the people. We are doing this with the people. And we are asking the people on November forth to validate our fear of Donald Trump’s power."
11. Lawmakers at their desks in Assembly
STORYLINE:
California voters will decide in a November special election whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year.
Lawmakers voted mostly along party lines Thursday to approve legislation calling for the special election. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom then signed it.
Republicans have sued and called for a federal investigation into the plan.
California currently relies on an independent commission that is supposed to be nonpartisan to draw maps. Voters’ permission is needed to implement the new one.
The special election is a response by Democrats to Texas Republicans’ push to redraw their state’s congressional map at President Donald Trump’s urging.
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