Kids, What Kids? CA Teachers Union Pours Millions Into Gavin Newsom's Radical Redistricting Effort

The California Teachers Association long ago gave up the guise of caring about education and the children and instead became focused on a radical Marxist overhaul of our country.

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Now, as Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to overturn the will of the people—who voted for two propositions creating independent redistricting commissions—and redraw congressional maps as he sees fit, the CTA has joined forces with his radical effort.

He wants to amend the state’s constitution to do it, which is very different than what Texas did. Those comparing the two situations should note that in the Lone Star State, the state legislature already had the authority to redraw congressional district maps and didn’t need to bend their constitution to do it.

What does this have to do with the children? You got me. Perhaps $3 million would be better spent on supporting their education:

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$3,000,000 To The Election Rigging Response Act, G...https://t.co/fXP8Yj6Naf pic.twitter.com/jOqtzmQX9Y
— CATargetBot0001 (@CATargetBot0001) August 25, 2025

The big bucks go straight to Newsom’s redistricting coffers:

The California Teachers Association (CTA) has given $3 million to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign for Proposition 50, a redistricting measure that will appear on the state’s Nov. 4, ballot, according to state campaign finance filings.
The CTA contribution, filed Aug. 23, went directly to “The Election Rigging Response Act, Governor Newsom’s Ballot Measure Committee,” which backs Prop 50.
The measure originated from a three-bill package in July, where Democrats used a “gut-and-amend” tactic on A.B. 604 and S.B. 280, along with A.C.A. 8, to grant the legislature temporary control of redistricting for the 2026, 2028, and 2030 election cycles. The state’s independent Citizens Redistricting Commission would resume authority in 2031.
“If this redistricting scheme goes through, voters will have no reason to trust politicians,” Assemblyman Carl DeMaio told Campus Reform. “Politicians will choose their voters; voters will not choose their politicians.”

California State Superintendent of Education candidate Sonja Shaw had thoughts:

🚨 DISGUSTING 🚨
The California Teachers Association is behind every attack on our kids, pushing confusion in classrooms, protecting only those who fit their narrative, and selling out teachers to back Newsom’s gerrymander.

I saw it firsthand at the hearing, they were the key…
— Sonja Shaw (@realSonjaShaw) August 26, 2025

I saw it firsthand at the hearing, they were the key presenters of this trash.
California deserves better. Our kids deserve better.

Money talks in U.S. politics, and it always has and probably always will. However, unions like the CTA and the SEIU have put such a chokehold on California politics with their millions that they’ve made the Democrat supermajority utterly beholden to them, and that’s a big reason why California has experienced such an epic decline in virtually every category. They don’t care about the quality of life for the average Golden Stater; they care about themselves and imposing their radical vision on the state—and the country, if allowed.

How about focusing on the well-being of our young people and their education for a change, CTA? Now that would be radical.

Because, as we are all taught in civics class, gerrymandering is core to … teaching civics class?

Every teacher should be opting out of their dues asap.

Opt out today! https://t.co/dh8X71Tmqd https://t.co/qGHZzlVZWm
— OC Republicans (@OCGOP) August 25, 2025

Editor's Note: Donald Trump and his team have been fighting against the left’s extreme agenda.

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