A Rich Scientist Is Determined To Sink Prop 50: Report

A wealth scientist and heir to Berkshire Hathaway is spending heft sums of money to ensure that Proposition 50 fails when it goes before voters in November, The Washington Post reported.

“I want folks to know, every week one person has donated $10 million to defeat us — one person,” Newsom said at a September fundraiser, according to the Post.

That person is Charles Munger Jr., who hopes to preserve the state's nonpartisan redistricting commission and halt Newsom's effort to redraw California's congressional map to benefit Democrats.

Newsom has launched an anti-Munger ad, as part of a larger campaign to further rile up voters by painting him as a republican extremist.

While Munger did not agree to speak with the The Washington Post, a spokesperson for his ballot measure committee told the newspaper that “any attempt to paint Charles Munger as MAGA is false and distorts his record.”

Munger is reportedly a Republican who heavily values nonpartisan redistricting. He has given his committee more than $32 million to oppose Proposition 50.

The partisan ballot initiative was created early this year in response to Texas redrawing its own congressional district map to benefit Republicans, at Trump's suggestion.

That's when California Democrats decided to do the same. If California voters approve the measure on Nov. 4, the state could adopt a new map that would add up to fice new Democratic seats.

The state's nonpartisan commission did not draw the maps that will go before voters next month, but they will resume drawing the map in 2031.

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