This isn’t the first time Charles Munger Jr. has fought to safeguard California’s independent redistricting.

When a suit filed by Arizona Republicans to disband their state’s commission threatened to topple California’s five-year-old panel, Munger rallied his former allies and braced for battle.

“I’m a redistricting reform zealot,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2015 .

Now, Munger is launching a new crusade, squaring off against Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats in a November race that could reshape the rest of President Donald Trump’s term and the future of gerrymandering reform.

Newsom is leading the push to convince voters to allow his party to temporarily override congressional maps drawn by the Munger-backed commission to create as many as five new U.S. House seats fo

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