STATEWIDE SPECIAL ELECTION – NOVEMBER 4, 2025
Statewide Propositions
No on 50
Why we’re against it
It’s a bad idea to call a special election to amend the state constitution for short-term political advantage or expediency.
First, this statewide special election will cost taxpayers an estimated $282 million at a time when the state is already in a declared budget emergency. Governor Newsom and the Legislature are taking money out of reserves in the “rainy day fund” just to keep up with excessive spending.
Second, California’s voters thoughtfully decided in 2008 to create an independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission to draw the district maps that determine which residents are represented by which state elected officials, and then in 2010 extended the mandate for the Citizens’ Redistricting Commission to draw the maps that determine the representation in Congress. Voters took the map-drawing power away from politicians in Sacramento and gave it to the people of California. Proposition 50 takes the power away from the people of California and gives it back to the politicians for the next three election cycles.
It’s unwise to make a change of this magnitude in a hastily called special election, to replace the maps that were painstakingly drawn with input from tens of thousands of Californians, and to substitute maps hurriedly drawn in a back room.
Californians deserve a better process, and they currently have one, but Proposition 50 would throw it out.
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 50.
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