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Posted on 12/19/2010 6:02:17 AM PST by Palmetto Patriot
Rep.-elect Tim Scott hasn't even taken office, yet the North Charleston Republican knows that he's already a marked man.
It's not his political foes who are targeting him.
Scott, with Allen West of Florida the first two black Republicans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives since Reconstruction, stands in the path of a demographic tidal wave that likely will engulf him in the coming months.
Thanks to rapid population growth in four counties in his 1st Congressional District — Dorchester, Horry, Berkeley and Charleston — an expected new U.S. House seat for South Carolina as a result of the 2010 Census could come largely at Scott's expense.
"The most likely scenario is that I will be a new congressman (after redistricting) once again for nearly a third of my district," Scott told McClatchy on Saturday.
An analysis by McClatchy matches Scott's own: A redrawn congressional map would likely remove from his district Horry County — a fast-growing area where he drew more than two-thirds of the vote last month.
"These are the citizens who've given me the most incredible opportunity I could have dreamed of," Scott said. "To pick (the district) apart immediately after being elected, that's tough. I like serving people. To have people who've said 'yes' to me serving them taken out of my hands is difficult."
Scott, though, would welcome the change because a seventh U.S. House district would likely tilt Republican — and thus could produce a new GOP congressman.
That might pit Scott's conservative ideological interests against his personal and political needs: A more Republican congressional delegation vs. a weaker district for himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
"If it comes down to us versus Washington state, I can see a political motivation in the administration trying to steer it away from South Carolina," Mulvaney said. "The political realist in me says that if there's a chance for the numbers to work against us, the administration might take that opportunity."
- Mick Mulvaney, Congressman-elect (SC-5)
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Tim Scott is a conservative that is doing the right thing! But the news media can't resist race. He's not doing these things because he's BLACK, he's doing them because this is what he believes is a correct direction for the country. I would vote for him in an instant because of his beliefs. But I wouldn't vote FOR or AGAINST him because of his race.
Hey dimwhit Journalist; transcribing from whitehouse websites again, eh? Did this dummy ever hear of J.C. Watts or was that just another inconvenient truth?
After all, Lindsey was at Furman's University complaining about all the white people he saw. Let's replace our white liberal senator with a black conservative senator.
(Those of us in SC, do a open secrets search of all of Graham's donors, mostly law firms run by WHITE LAWYERS and energy firms run by WHITE CEOS.)
Who're you calling white, Lindsey?
You are, of course, correct. I seem to remember others too.
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The thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2644387/posts
From the article:
“However, while this is the first time Republicans have ever held exclusive control of the remap, this is also the first time a Democratic-appointed Justice Department will be overseeing preclearance of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and the Obama Justice Department may deny “preclearance” based on this fact: if South Carolina gains a seventh district, it will be possible to split the 6th CD in two and draw two African-American majority districts, one based in Columbia (Clyburn’s home) and one anchored by Charleston and the Low Country.”
If SC's new district is drawn to produce a 5/2 situation it will probably be a net loss for the GOP since we can count on the northern states that are losing seats to target GOP districts for elimination.
Georgetown is in CD1, Myrtle Beach is in CD5, Florence is in CD7 and Darlington is in CD6.
It's not that simple.
Every state will be redistricting this year. With our victories in State Legislatures this year, we control that process in many more states. The knives will be out for Dem Districts.
Take NC, for example. Dem legislatures have gerrymandered that state in their favor. After Nov.'s results (both Houses flipped to Rep.), marginal districts will be redrawn in our favor, most likely. Guys like Kissell should be quaking in their boots.
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