This asshole is “concerned” about the redistricting taking a few black (”BLUE”) voters out of French Hill’s district to shore it up. He’s gonna let the maps pass without his signature rather than veto it though because he doesn’t want to commit complete political suicide. He’s doing the same with a bill that allows showing proof of natural immunity or getting testing 10000 times in place of being forced to get the “jab”.
What a piece of RINO garbage.
That’s mighty White of him.
Personally, I don’t like the congressional redistricting map approved by the Arkansas legislature. It splits Little Rock’s Pulaski County three ways while improving the GOP vote percentage in the AR-02 only marginally. Hutchinson had warned against splitting Pulaski three ways and presumably doesn’t want his name attached to such plan. What AR Republicans should have done is attach Pulaski to the most heavily Republican suburban and rural counties in the vicinity and in the northern tier of the state (avoiding, e.g., Faulkner County), which would have improved the Trump percentage in the AR-02 by much more than in the approved plan while eliminating the argument that Republicans “split Little Rock three ways to dilute the black vote.” The AR-02 is not a VRA district, and I don’t believe that the Pulaski precincts placed in adjoining CDs are heavily black (or even within the Little Rock city limits), but I consider the new AR congressional map both a missed opportunity and an unforced error.