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Democrats criticize Texas gerrymandering, despite similar moves in their states.
Newsom, Pritzker and Hochul accuse GOP of tactics their states already employ.
Claims of defending democracy clash with documented manipulation of district maps.
Any politician with a career of appreciable length will eventually get caught in hypocrisy. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is reaching a level of shamelessness that, if it were a virtue, might propel him straight to the presidency he so clearly desires.
Most of Newsom’s fellow big-state Democratic governors have succumbed to the same inconsistency in their furious responses to Texas Republicans’ plans to redraw congressional districts. But in this u