{"id":35510,"date":"2025-11-03T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/35510\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:04:09","slug":"california-farmers-push-back-on-prop-50-redistricting-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/35510\/","title":{"rendered":"California farmers push back on Prop 50 redistricting plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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California voters are in the final days of a special election<\/a> that could help determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026. The ballot measure, known as Proposition 50, would allow state lawmakers to temporarily redraw California\u2019s congressional map \u2014 a move Democrats say could help them pick up additional seats in Congress.<\/p>\n

Jenny Holtermann, a fourth-generation farmer in California’s<\/a> Central Valley, said that under the proposed map, she would remain in a Republican District, but worries about the changes could affect her community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It really is, it\u2019s sad that they are really carving out those Republican areas of the district and moving them to really make the areas more Democrat, and that\u2019s not what the Central Valley is,” Holtermann told Fox.<\/p>\n

REPUBLICANS FIGHT NEWSOM’S $88M REDISTRICTING ‘POWER GRAB’ AS PROP 50 BATTLE HEATS UP<\/a><\/p>\n

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Early morning at an almond farm in California’s Central Valley. <\/p>\n

OBAMA ENDORSES NEWSOM CALIFORNIA REDISTRICTING PROP 50<\/a><\/p>\n

Beyond Central Valley farmers, the California Farm Bureau has also come out against Prop 50. Holtermann said she\u2019s used to larger cities having more political influence in Sacramento but fears the measure would further silence rural voices.<\/p>\n

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Jenny Holtermann holds a fresh almond picked from her orchard. (Amalia Roy)<\/p>\n

“We are California, and as Californians we should not be caught up with what other states are doing to [gerry]mander their votes,” Holtermann said.<\/p>\n

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOTERS WEIGH IN ON PROP 50 REDISTRICTING FIGHT<\/a><\/p>\n

Lonny Johnson, vice chair of the Fresno County Democratic Party, said he doesn\u2019t welcome the fight either, but argued that redistricting efforts in Republican-led states left California Democrats with few options.<\/p>\n

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A flyer urging people to vote for Prop 50 sits on a table at the Fresno County Democratic Party office. (Amalia Roy)<\/p>\n

“We can either fight this \u2013 which is what we\u2019re doing \u2013 and the people of California seem very supportive if you look at recent polling, or we can do nothing. We can let them game the system, keep control of the House of Representatives, and there will be no check, no check, on the Trump Administration,” said Johnson.<\/p>\n

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Johnson added that unlike other states, the question of redistricting is up to California voters.<\/p>\n

“This was not an option that was afforded the voters of Texas, or the voters of North Carolina, or the voters of Missouri. The state legislatures just put it in,” Johnson told Fox.<\/p>\n

Amalia Roy joined Fox News in 2025 as a Multimedia Reporter based in Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California voters are in the final days of a special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25181,7,9,8,24604,25180,13],"class_list":["post-35510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-2025-2026-elections-coverage","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fox-news-multimedia-reporters","tag-house-of-representatives-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}