Has the guts to defy all norms and hold off until AFTER the redistricting.

breaking the law concerning elections, the Dems should fight fire with fire

It's in the constitution.

If Newsom did try to appoint, then the GOP Speaker wouldn't allow that person to be sworn in.

Newsom's best bet is to delay the special election for as long as possible.

The Constitution which allowed an ICE Agent to shoot a woman in the face in her car in Minneapolis this morning?

That Constitution? The one that is now defunct?

delaying the swearing in of a Democratic representative. My guess is that that wasn't legal either.

We aren’t them. If we become them to defeat them, what have we won?

It’s one thing to legally respond to the TX redistricting with a voter-supported plan.
It is quite another to leave voters without representation.

Democracy matters:

Lifelong pension and medical

Not for free anyway, she can BUY it but only if she was paying for the ACA in DC while in office.

Edit to add district number.

That would be a historic reversal. Possible, but I'm not holding my breath. Plenty of other pick-up options this November.

It will likely be a Democratic seat with the redistricting. But the special election will be with the current lines.

and the GOP may not field much of a candidate if it looks like the seat will be lost in November anyway.

All of these shit is so anti-democratic, but we have to fight fire with fire. The racist party (whatever name the party went by at the time) has been doing this shit for 200 years.

It is a shame that we were so close to being able to pass comprehensive election reform in 2021, but it failed thanks to Manchin.

In November, voters passed Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional lines to shore up Democratic districts starting with the November 2026 midterm cycle. Under that initiative, LaMalfa’s district was shifted south to include more liberal Bay Area residents, starting in the November 2026 midterms.

LaMalfa represented the state’s 1st congressional district, which spans much of the north state up to the Oregon border, a reliably conservative and mostly rural agrarian area.

Under state law, because the district representative vacated before those new lines went into effect, the successor will be elected to represent the current district, according to redistricting expert Paul Mitchell.

A handful of candidates have declared their intention to run for the new district, like previous LaMalfa opponent Audrey Denney and Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg. In addition to the special primary election for LaMalfa’s successor, another election will take place for someone to represent the newly drawn 1st District, which will include voters from more liberal leaning Sonoma and Napa counties, Mitchell said.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article314211930.html#storylink=cpy

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The Republicans started the new year with 220. They lost MTG yesterday and the California congressman passing away today makes it 218. The car crash makes it 217, I assume temporarily. The DEMS are at 213. Which means lil mike can only lose 1 vote from his caucus. More importantly, Johnson needs 218 to bring a vote to the floor, which means he needs one dem. This will be interesting to see how the house proceeds over the next few days/weeks.

That's incorrect. That only applies to discharge petitions. The Speaker can bring any bill he wants to the floor whenever he wants. It just needs to pass in committe first.

thank you

Democrats have 213. That will go up to 214 after January 31 when the runoff for Sylvester turner's seat in Texas takes place. Bothe candidates in the runoff are Democrats. Mikie Sherrill's seat in NJ will have a special election in April, almost cdertainly to be won by a Democrat. I think the special election for Greene's seat in Georgia will take place first, though, even though it hasn't been scheduled yet. The special election for the California vacancy must take place by June at the latest.

OMG the exploding heads.
Even if it was only temporary until those seats were refilled.

I would say, however, I would certainly not hold my breath waiting