California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Thursday sent letters to television stations and digital platforms demanding they stop airing ads promoting the state’s controversial redistricting ballot initiative.

Hilton called Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) pro-Proposition 50 campaign ads, which have been running on stations statewide, a “flat-out lie.”

The former Fox News host told the Washington Examiner that Newsom is purposely deceiving voters when he claims Proposition 50 “preserves and protects California’s independent redistricting commission.”

In reality, Hilton said, the ballot measure suspends the independent redistricting commission’s authority until 2031, invalidates the maps created through the Census-based process, and replaces them with carved-out congressional districts that ignore constitutional safeguards put in place to ensure fair representation.

“If Gavin Newsom pushed Prop 50 through, a Democrat vote in California would be worth eight times a Republican vote,” Hilton said. “It’s an obscene attack on our democracy, an outrageous power grab by an arrogant, authoritarian, and corrupt ruling elite.”

Proposition 50 is a ballot measure that would approve a new congressional map passed by the state legislature last month and possibly give Democrats five additional House seats. The push for new maps is a direct response to Texas redrawing its map in favor of Republicans at the request of President Donald Trump, who is seeking to hold on to power during next year’s midterm elections.

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