Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who defended the creation of an independent commission to draw the districts of the California Congress, returned to state voters televisions on Tuesday in a new announcement that opposes a November vote measure of state democrats to boost the ranks of their party in Congress.
A committee that opposes proposition 50, which would replace the districts drawn by an independent commission with which supporters are created, plan to spend $ 1 million per day that the announcement will be issued throughout the state. Schwarzenegger describes the measure of the vote as one that does not favor voters, but it is in the interest of entrenched politicians.
“That is what they want to do is take us upside down. That is why it is important that he vote not in proposal 50,” says the celebrity of Hollywood and former governor in the announcement, which was filmed last week when he spoke with the USC students. “The Constitution does not begin with 'We, the politicians'. It begins with 'We, the people'. … Democracy: we have to protect it, and we have to go fight for it.”
A USC official sent a letter to the lawyer of the campaign saying that the university had not given permission for a camera team to film the comments of Schwarzenegger for an ad.
“The event sought to be an inspiring discussion about the remarkable life of Governor Schwarzenegger, his public service and the importance of democracy,” wrote Michael Blanon, vice president of the Office of Professionalism and Ethics of the USC, the lawyer Steven S. Lucas. “The USC is neutral in proposition 50 and intends to remain neutral.”
The University did not give permission to use its name or logos for campaign purposes, nor the interim president of the USC, Beong-Soo Kim, who interviewed Schwarzenegger at the event, gave permission for the use of his name or image, Blanton wrote.
The 50-support proposition of the campaign counteracted an announcement on Tuesday with the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.).
“California, you know, we do not go back to a fight, and this November, the fight belongs to you,” says the liberal fire brand in the announcement. “Donald Trump is redesigning electoral maps to force through a congress that only responds, not people. If you go out with yours, all bets are out of our medical care, our payment checks and our freedoms. With Prop. 50, we can stop it.”
The redistribution of districts is the redrait of the limits of the congress that generally occurs once a decade after the United States census to account for population changes. The process rarely attracts the attention it has this year due to a heated battle to determine the control of a congress very divided in the last two years of the possession of President Trump.
After Trump urged Texas and other states led by the Republican Party to re -draw their congress districts earlier this year to increase the number of Republicans in the Democrats of the House of Representatives, led by Governor Gavin Newsom, counteracted by putting a rare redistribution of half of the decade in a November vote of special elections that would probably increase the number of democrats in the body.
Schwarzenegger, a champion of political reform, is not part of any official campaign of the proposal 50. Since he left office, he has prioritized good governance in his institute at the USC and has campaigned for the redistribution of independent districts throughout the country.
The announcement is being transmitted by the best funded effort that opposes Proposition 50, one that is funded by Charles Munger Jr., an important republican donor who signed the voting measures created by the Independent Commission of California.
Munger has already donated $ 30 million to a campaign that opposes the measure of the November electoral ballot, according to the collection revelations presented before the Secretary of State's office. The other great opposition effort has raised more than $ 5 million.
The main group support group, led by Newsom, has raised more than $ 54 million.
These fund collection figures are based on required disseminations of large contributions. More complete fundraising numbers must be submitted to the state on Thursday.
