California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to use the mass mail-in ballot state’s Democrat stranglehold to crush California’s independent redistricting commission, but a deep-pocketed key figure in establishing it does not want it to die in the darkness of partisan force.
Charles Munger Jr., a Berkshire Hathaway heir backed by his late father’s $2 billion estate, is committed “to protect something that he fought so hard alongside us to win,” Common Cause CEO Virginia Kase Solomón told The Washington Post.
But Common Cause, which co-wrote Munger Jr.’s Propositions 11 and 20 to make redistricting independent of the state’s Democrat stranglehold, recently returned his $200,000 August donation, saying it would not join the heir in opposing Newsom’s Proposition 50.
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