Standing in his way is a bow-tie-wearing physicist who loves classical Japanese poetry and is heir to a Berkshire Hathaway fortune. Charles Munger Jr., son of the late billionaire investor Charles Munger, has already poured $30 million into opposing the California governor’s efforts to revamp the state’s congressional districts in favor of Democrats. Munger is a Republican, but his crusade is far more about fighting gerrymandering than party preferences.
I’m in California and I’ve been receiving bullshit mail about this trying to convince me that the redistricting is bad for democracy as if every single Republican state in the country isn’t already trying to do this and doing it.