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To: fieldmarshaldj

Thanks for the count.

BTW, anytime anyone complains about gerrymandering ... point to this absuridty in massachusetts:
MA-10D (No change)

yikes.


54 posted on 11/18/2006 8:24:06 AM PST by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: WOSG

The sad thing is, it's not the result of gerrymandering. The only gerrymandering we have here is to protect incumbents and give the Boston area far more representation than it deserves. The GOP is so weak here that a totally fair map, with no incumbents, would give us at best even odds in 3 out of 10 districts, and we'd have a hard time finding strong candidates to run.

As an example of the Boston-centered gerrymandering:
* Nantucket and the Cape have a representative from Quincy
* New Bedford has a representative from Newton
* Brockton has a representative from South Boston
* Framingham has a representative from Malden


56 posted on 11/18/2006 8:46:31 AM PST by HostileTerritory
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