“California cannot sit back and let that happen. We have a responsibility to step up. We are going to step up,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Ladera Heights).

Bryan was speaking at a news conference in Sacramento where Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro tem Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg), Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas), U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, and other state lawmakers welcomed Texas Democrats to Sacramento to back plans for redrawing California’s congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections.

Bryan said where he’s from in Los Angeles, “when they go low, we squabble up.”

“That doesn’t mean we are abandoning our values, continued Bryan. “We are not doing away with the independent commission that we establish every single decade, b

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