This is AWESOME. I have a Marshal stiffy. (watch “Justified” on FX)
It was long past due for the GOP to grow some nads and do something like this. Bill Bolling is a piece of crap for standing the way. Why don’t you want your own party to have more seat, Billie?
Maybe if it all works out and we keep the Governor’s office (Bolling if you run as an Indie and throw it to the rat I will go out there to VA just put a flaming bag of poo on your doorstep) they can redo the congressional map, improve the 11th which is now unwinnable (or is NOVA so lost we should leave it as is?).
I also LOVE the “twist” they put on the E vote idea. Someone in the VA Senate is using their brain, and nads. I want to know who the mastermind is so we can elect him RNC chair.
Such an encouraging development, I’m almost afraid to believe it and be pleased.
We can’t make the VA-11 winnable without endangering other CDs, and we certainly could never draw 9 CDs that we would carry in a presidential election in which the Republican didn’t win a large statewide majority. In fact, when VA picks up a 12th CD after the 2020 Census, we should draw a second black-majority CD (one solely in Hampton Roads, the other from Richmond to the black areas in the new SD-25 and beyond)) and a second rural/suburban NoVA GOP district and combine the VA-02 with the eastern part of the VA-04 (I suspect that Forbes would retire by then) so as to ensure that we win majorities in 8 out of 12 CDs (currently Rigell’s VA-02 voted for Obama and several other gave Romney 50%-52%, too close for comfort) and thus lock in 10 EVs from VA.