Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting his money where his mouth is in his fight against gerrymandering.
In a post online, the actor and former governor of California says he will match donations made to an effort to “make Washington work for us.”
“It is now time to take independent redistricting reform nationwide. It’s complicated, but we are here to show you that it is not impossible,” Schwarzenegger wrote, pointing to a reform effort in California.
Now Schwarzenegger said he wants to spread the reform movement across the country and asked supporters to donate to Crowdpac, which is a non-partisan, for-profit corporation that aims to help citizens organize for political causes and raise money.
“It’s a three-pronged attack — we will fight gerrymandering with grassroots initiatives, we will fight it by lobbying in state capitols and we will fight it in the courts. Together, we will win,” he wrote.
Schwarzenegger, who is reportedly eyeing a run for the Senate, recently criticized gerrymandering and the resulting makeup of Congress that “couldn’t beat herpes in the polls.”
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to more accurately describe what CrowdPac does.
