Posted on 12/22/2011 5:18:57 AM PST by 11th_VA
California's congressional Democrats ran a secret effort this year to manipulate the work of the independent citizens panel that drew the state's new political districts, foiling the intent of reformers who sought to remove the redistricting process from the control of party bosses.
Democrats met behind closed doors at the party's Washington, D.C., headquarters, hired consultants, drew their ideal districts and presented maps to the panel through proxies who never disclosed their party ties or "public interest" groups created specifically for the purpose. In many cases, the panel responded by doing just what the Democrats wanted.
The New York-based nonprofit investigative foundation ProPublica released findings Wednesday from a months-long reconstruction of the Democrats' stealth redistricting strategy, relying on internal memos, emails, interviews and map analyses.
The success of the strategy has Democrats projecting they might pick up as many as seven congressional seats in 2012 under new district boundaries adopted in the summer, far more than had been expected.
"Every member of the Northern California Democratic Caucus has a ticket back to D.C.," crowed one internal memo. "This is a huge accomplishment that should be celebrated by advocates throughout the region."
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Off with their heads!
It is my opinion that the most aggravating part of the Political scene in this country is the simple well known fact the Democrats have a couple of hundred years track record doing just exactly this sort of underhanded, skullduggery, and yet the Republicans are never ever prepared to counter their very obvious, and really not so clever little tricks.
It’s almost like it’s staged ie; Carol Burnett in “Annie” sort of obvious.
Just to give you something to throw back at Dem acquaintances regarding Pa.’s looming redistricting.
In Arizona, we just turned over the redistricting to Obama’s people. Once it was found out who they were, the “courts” said it was great that Barry’s people are now running the state.
Throw it out or tie it up in court like the dems did here in TX!!!
Why is anyone surprised ?
Politics used to be about finding the best person for a job, and that person was the one who would get the most effective and efficient use out of the taxpayer’s hard-earned dollars. Why do the Democrats pull all these shenanigans for government jobs?
They get to boss around their countrymen and, a distant second, job security.
How much more cheating can they do when they control 70 percent of that sick state? Oddly, the “informed” people have left CA but taken their liberalism with them too! There’s just too much liberalism to go around in CA.
Unfortunately the Democrats have utterly white-washed their history. Most people are completely unaware that the Democrat party was founded by Van Buren specifically for the purpose of committing political malfeasance vis-a-vis the spoils system.
didn’t Tom Delay get charged or maybe going to jail because of this?
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