Posted on 01/29/2012 9:33:30 AM PST by Nachum
What to make of that? Is it gerrymandering or the opposite of same?
Dunno how consistently conservative it would be. Weren’t these same people bought for a mess of pottage by Hillary in her senatorial campaign?
Well, at least the state can always build a wall around this putative district and require all residents be inside by sundown. Just like those cool, hip Europeans used to do.
This will be a royal pain for the mega-crooked Ruling NY Socialists, oops I meant democrats.
What’s the total effect? I can’t believe that the NY Democrats would allow this unless they wanted to shovel some of those conservatives out of another district, where a liberal was endangered.
Not that it isn’t good for the Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.
” Orthodox Jews may soon be getting a district to call their own “
Ummmmm...
Didn’t this used to be called (in Europe, circa 1930-19450 a “Ghetto”???
“What to make of that? Is it gerrymandering or the opposite of same?”
Actually it is Extreme Gerrymandering as it not only draws district lines to insure that a certain minority has a seat in the legislature, but it also adds an additional seat to the New York Legislature.
For some reason, I don’t think most here will view this as gerrymandering, but they would if a district lines were drawn to create an extra legislative district Muslims, gays or the Occupy Wall Street encampment.
You made that same connection too, ehh?
Wait and see, Nachum. The movers and shakers of this community are very Sharpton-like in their extortive political practices and can be and have been bought ... not that they are straight enough to necessarily stay bought.
Prediction: they will elect a Socialist.
I am only taking note. I have little or no expectations for New York City. -Anthony’s Weiner excepted :)
You're thinking of a very tight nit community of Skver Chassidim in New Square (literally "New Skver"), New York. Not the broader Orthodox community in Brooklyn, which includes Chassidim, Syrian Jews, Egyptian Jews, Lebanese Jews, black hat Litvaks, and Modern Orthodox. I suspect the district will probably also include parts of Brighton which are heavily populated by Russian Jews (who mostly not Orthodox, but very Republican).
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New York districts are already notoriously gerrymandered. The only reason for doing this is to isolate Republicans in one district instead of making several districts more competitive.
The emphasis may be on religious Jews, but such ‘Jewish areas’ are usually much less than half Jewish. In the case on federal Congressional District NY-9 (where this state district would be located), I believe Catholics actually outnumber Jews.
But if this same district is being created as a new voting district it will simply be an added appendage that will not upset the status quo and can be safely ignored.
This might be a very good place to live, if one must live in New York City.
It would be a good place to live if you were an Orthodox Jew, possibly even a non-Orthodox Jew as long as you weren’t a woman who liked short skirts or pants.
If you aren’t Jewish... you will be an unwelcome alien... I went to nursing school in Lakewood NJ and even the small children are taught not to look at Gentiles.
Mordechai Rumkowski is laughing his ass off in hell , the Jews of New York are literally creating a new ghetto for themselves & their masters in the party of slavery,socialism & sodomy (the Democrats).
Gerrymandering is the norm in New York. Everyone does it. This would not be a Ghetto any more than the 9th Congressional district, which just elected Bob Turner, is a Ghetto.
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