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To: CedarDave

Gerrymandering is evil, and both sides do it. If it were up to me, districts would be drawn in a grid. Done.


5 posted on 12/28/2021 1:08:41 PM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: brownsfan

Or in such a way that they *must* be as compact as possible.

Personally, I think they should be drawn to make it as close to even as possible. *NO* elected official, Democrat or Republican should *ever* be able to take winning the general for granted, ever.

Safe districts seem to turn even the best men into criminal slouches sometimes.

No politician should ever be more assured of keeping their job than the lowest wage earner in Retail.


7 posted on 12/28/2021 1:12:12 PM PST by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: brownsfan

“It’s ‘Gerrymandering’ when *they* do it”

A joke literally older than the Republican party.

Both sides do it, every chance they get, to the greatest degree possible.


8 posted on 12/28/2021 1:13:20 PM PST by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: brownsfan

Gerrymandering is evil, and both sides do it. If it were up to me, districts would be drawn in a grid.

No, only Pubbies Gerrymander, the motives of Dims is as pure as new snow, only wanting to help people. Or so they say.


9 posted on 12/28/2021 1:17:49 PM PST by Paperpusher
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To: brownsfan
Difference being dims do it and don't compromise while reps fold like cheap suites.

Plus, the media covers for dims and kills reps on these issues.

10 posted on 12/28/2021 1:18:05 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: brownsfan
If it were up to me, districts would be drawn in a grid. Done.

Yep but NOPE! Can't be done at all because of the umbra & penumbra of the Civil Rights Act(s). Minority CDs are sacrosanct, once a minority, always a minority, although a pale minority can win if of the correct party! So just remember to be Civil about it, it is their Rights, you know!

Oh, and would someone page Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General? He has been very loud on illegal gerrymandering ... in red states! Blue states like NM, IL and CA? Eh, not so much!

13 posted on 12/28/2021 1:32:56 PM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: brownsfan

It’s time to return to the numbers our Founding Fathers used for apportionment.

Increase the size of Congress and watch the real fun begin.

L


20 posted on 12/28/2021 8:22:32 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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