Posted on 11/07/2021 6:49:51 PM PST by Mount Athos
Ohio lawmakers are scheduled to hold hearings next week on a pair of maps drawn up in the redistricting process ahead of next year’s midterms after the state lost a seat in the last census.
One map proposed by Republicans in the GOP-controlled Senate chamber is raising eyebrows by adding urban Democratic strongholds to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s rural conservative district. Jordan is the state’s most prominent House member.
“This Ohio Senate GOP map would gerrymander Rep. Jim Jordan, a leading Trump ally and the top R in the House Judiciary Committee, out of his district,” added New York Post reporter Juliegrace Brufke in a tweet, indicating that Davis was not alone in what he believes he is seeing.
“We believe our proposal is constitutional and compliant and we look forward to hearing the process continuing next week,” Ohio Senate Majority Caucus Spokesman John Fortney told The Federalist.
Circular firing squad.
I believe it is this crap that the Founders envisioned when they created Article V. The Convention of the States. I believe they envisioned a point in time where self-interest corruption would become so endemic that short of another Revolution the Convention of the States would provide a vehicle for We the People to course correct a self-serving corrupt gov’t.
Republican is a verb, it’s what stupid craven venal corporate globalist people do.
Q: As a Republican, what do you do?
A: Why I REPUBLICAN, of course!
RINOs will stop at nothing to keep hold of the GOP. They can’t win, so they’ll rig the system. Like the good Democrats they are.
House cleaning is in order across the board
Maybe they are trying not to make it look like a snake. His district does look ridiculous.
Check the maps yourself:
This one makes Jordan’s District R+28, but it makes it more likely the Democrats get 3 seats in Ohio.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/ohio/house_gop_proposal/
This one still gives him R+9, while keeping all but 2 seats in Ohio Republican.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/ohio/senate_gop_proposal/
It has nothing to do with Jordan. It’s just a question whether to go for the 13-2 map or the 12-2-1 map. You have to spread some Red deeper if you do the former.
thanks
And on cue the moron class runs in to comment on the headline without checking into the facts.
Title should read “Senate Assistant Democrats....”
I mean, they were SCREAMINGLY blatant in Kansas's CD-3, after having first stolen it with a semi-believable margin in 2018.
I am moving to Ohio as this is written. Ohio’s 2011 congressinal map is incredibly gerrymandered as it stands.
The worst district blongs to Marcy Kaptur, a ‘Rat from Toledo, whose district runs along the banks of Lake Erie to the western half of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). Kaptur represents Avon Lake, where some of my family live. I am moving to Avon, immediately south of Avon Lake, and my congressman is Bob Gibbs, whose district includes Canton.
Jim Jordan is from Urbana in west central Ohio, yet his current district snakes around and includes the portions of Lorain County not represented by Kaptur or Gibbs, including the county seat of Elyria.
I think Jordan has friends in the Ohio legislature (he once served there).
My hope and expectation is that Kaptur’s district will be chopped up (as it should be), and that she calls it a career after 40 years of misrepresenting the public.
Most likely
The GOP needs an enema.
Kaptur is in a vote sink. Since Ohio is losing a seat, they have to pack other Districts.
Think about what you want to do if you want to maximize the number of GOP seats statewide.
You have to pack as many Democrats that you can in as few districts as possible. That results in D+50 seats in inner cities, while the GOP has many other R+10-15 seats.
The good news is that Kaptur’s seat is the one that was selected for unpacking. In both the 12-2-1 and 13-2 plan, her seat gets unpacked and turned Republican.
The only question is whether the GOP gets super aggressive and goes for the 13-2 plan, giving the Democrats only 2 seats, but spreading a few GOP seats pretty thin, or going for a slightly safer 12-2-1 plan.
See post 6
Sorry post 9.
See post 9
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