We had gerrymandering as well. We were a swing suburban district that an extreme candidate carried just once. Then people living there talked and decided to avoid that next time, so candidates had to be moderate thereafter.
Maybe 12 years ago, our relatively compact district covered fringes of three gerrymandered school districts (We talk…
We had gerrymandering as well. We were a swing suburban district that an extreme candidate carried just once. Then people living there talked and decided to avoid that next time, so candidates had to be moderate thereafter.
Maybe 12 years ago, our relatively compact district covered fringes of three gerrymandered school districts (We talked at church and in the stores and in the parks, as their service areas were compact ) THEN..., we were chopped up into bits, each bit reassigned to a VERY distant suburb, multiple counties away. For us, our end result was snake like, with a bulge in each tail, our bulge smaller so we'd be dominated by the distant and larger bulge filled with an extreme 10%. The bulge in the other end of the snake outnumbered us, We did not again "have a say so".
CONSEQUENCES--They don't give us town halls. They don't even bother to knock on our door like they used to. The moderate middle has been denied our fair share of reps by gerrymandering?
The big con man says "look at my left hand as I talk about my stolen election" (1% were dead voters on old lists?) . He does NOT say, "ignore the big steal with my right hand" (gerrymanders involve stolen representatives, 10% stolen? more?).
THEY HIDE IT ALL, AS NOT HONEST PEOPLE. You can't easily find a good map of our state's electoral districts online, nor a series showing how they changed over time.
I finally found one recent map. However, it hid the truth, as IT SHADED OUT the urban/suburban metro areas! Who had our bitty-bits at a distance been paired with?
Yeah, in our gerrymandered district there are never any town halls. Our representatives will show up for controlled media events, but never a question and answer session.
I would wager that Rich McCormick will not make that mistake again.
We had gerrymandering as well. We were a swing suburban district that an extreme candidate carried just once. Then people living there talked and decided to avoid that next time, so candidates had to be moderate thereafter.
Maybe 12 years ago, our relatively compact district covered fringes of three gerrymandered school districts (We talked at church and in the stores and in the parks, as their service areas were compact ) THEN..., we were chopped up into bits, each bit reassigned to a VERY distant suburb, multiple counties away. For us, our end result was snake like, with a bulge in each tail, our bulge smaller so we'd be dominated by the distant and larger bulge filled with an extreme 10%. The bulge in the other end of the snake outnumbered us, We did not again "have a say so".
CONSEQUENCES--They don't give us town halls. They don't even bother to knock on our door like they used to. The moderate middle has been denied our fair share of reps by gerrymandering?
The big con man says "look at my left hand as I talk about my stolen election" (1% were dead voters on old lists?) . He does NOT say, "ignore the big steal with my right hand" (gerrymanders involve stolen representatives, 10% stolen? more?).
THEY HIDE IT ALL, AS NOT HONEST PEOPLE. You can't easily find a good map of our state's electoral districts online, nor a series showing how they changed over time.
I finally found one recent map. However, it hid the truth, as IT SHADED OUT the urban/suburban metro areas! Who had our bitty-bits at a distance been paired with?
It's a form of stealing.
Yeah, in our gerrymandered district there are never any town halls. Our representatives will show up for controlled media events, but never a question and answer session.
I would wager that Rich McCormick will not make that mistake again.