Lawsuit forces Maryland Democrats to acknowledge the obvious: Redistricting was motivated by politics
Maryland Democrats drew the state's convoluted congressional districts with an eye toward ousting a longtime Republican incumbent and replacing him with a Democrat, former Gov. Martin O'Malley has acknowledged as part of a high-profile legal challenge to the maps winding its way through federal court.
The acknowledgment that state Democrats were working in 2011 to add a seventh member of their party to the House of Representatives, widely understood at the time but seldom conceded publicly even now, comes as Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is advocating for a nonpartisan redistricting commission, ostensibly to curb partisan gerrymandering.
The lawsuit, filed in 2013 by a former federal employee, is shedding new light on the machinations that took place behind the scenes as Democrats sought to oust Republican Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett from the seat he had held for nearly two decades.
Lawsuit forces Maryland Democrats to acknowledge the obvious: Redistricting was motivated by politics
It always has, and always will. When you let the incumbents draw the lines, they will draw them to benefit the party in power. Duh. Maryland is the rule, not the exception.
Duh! Would we expect less from the liberal scum in Annapolis?
ReplyDeleteO'Malley pond scum who thought he was Presidential material wish he'd move to some other state, out of this country, deported best solution.
ReplyDeleteLawsuit forces Maryland Democrats to acknowledge the obvious: Redistricting was motivated by politics
ReplyDeleteIt always has, and always will. When you let the incumbents draw the lines, they will draw them to benefit the party in power. Duh. Maryland is the rule, not the exception.