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Statewide special election update: Cal Poly Democrats on Dexter Lawn · Stories from Mustang News on KCPR

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  Speaker 1: With Proposition fifty on the ballot. Calpolit Democrats and a
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  Speaker 1: national initiative called Donuts and Democracy brought donuts and discussion
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  Speaker 1: to campus to encourage civic engagement. Fifty is It's redistricting
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  Speaker 1: and a CALI client At Exterlon, Calpolity Democrats gave out
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  Speaker 1: donuts from Slodoko funded by Donuts and Democracy, a national
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  Speaker 1: organization encouraging young voter participation. The students in cal Pauly
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  Speaker 1: Democrats were advocating to their peers to learn about Proposition fifty,
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  Speaker 1: which would keep California's independent redistricting maps in place to
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  Speaker 1: the twenty thirty. Elliott Hawkin, a second year political science
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  Speaker 1: major and economics minor as well as the outreach coordinator
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  Speaker 1: for cal Pauly Democrats, states.
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  Speaker 2: And right now we are partnering with an organization called
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  Speaker 2: Donuts and Democracy, where we're here giving out donuts to
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  Speaker 2: anyone who's just going to talk to us about Prop
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  Speaker 2: fifty and get educated and be interested in having those conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Hawkins says the group support for Proposition fifty comes down
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  Speaker 1: to fair representation.
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone agrees that equalities should be the goal
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  Speaker 2: in government and equal representation as well, and what we
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  Speaker 2: saw in Texas is that Donald Trump called their governor
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  Speaker 2: and what he decided is to diminish some people's votes,
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  Speaker 2: especially Democrats votes, by drawing their district lines to disproportionately
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  Speaker 2: favors Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: First year political science major Garrett Former says he got
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  Speaker 1: involved with Kalpoly Democrats earlier this year and came out
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  Speaker 1: to help.
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  Speaker 3: Prop fifty just feels like a really great way to
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  Speaker 3: empower the voters. I know a lot of people are
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  Speaker 3: really upset with the Democrats and they feel a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the time like they haven't been doing enough. But personally,
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  Speaker 3: I think this is one of the great ways that
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats have come out and shown that they are
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  Speaker 3: ready to fight Trump no matter what weird moves he pulls.
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  Speaker 1: Not everyone who's thoughted by was with the club. Third
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  Speaker 1: year Industrial technology and packaging student Katrina Harris says she
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  Speaker 1: appreciated the outreach and the donuts, but also encourages students
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  Speaker 1: to make informed decisions.
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  Speaker 4: I know they're advocating for saying yes. I think everyone
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  Speaker 4: should do the research first before choosing yes or no.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're pros and cons for both. I said
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  Speaker 4: yes because of my opinion. What's happening in the government
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  Speaker 4: right now isn't the greatest, and so we need to
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  Speaker 4: be able to take some power back, even if it's temporarily.
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  Speaker 4: Times right now, so we have to do what we can.
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  Speaker 1: Proposition fifty would keep California's Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission in
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  Speaker 1: charge of drawing congressional districts through twenty thirty four. Mustang
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  Speaker 1: News on KCPR. I'm Diego Poo Gascobar