Posted on 12/29/2021 10:25:45 PM PST by RandFan
Michigan’s House delegation was left scrambling Wednesday after the state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission finalized new congressional maps that eliminated one district while putting eight incumbents in four shared districts and creating three new open seats.
In the hours after the map was released Tuesday evening several incumbents – including Democrats Elissa Slotkin and Debbie Dingell and Republican John Moolenaar – announced they would move to run in districts where they faced better odds or to avoid running against one of their colleagues.
Democrat Haley Stevens, who has been on Republican target lists for the last two cycles, announced she would move to the newly drawn 11th District to face Andy Levin, a scion of one of the state’s best-known political dynasties, in what is sure to be an expensive and hotly contested Democratic primary. Meanwhile, two incumbents — Republican Fred Upton and Democrat Brenda Lawrence — left their plans open-ended. That led to speculation about whether they would retire, move to new districts, or — in Upton’s case — set up another member-on-member primary against Rep. Bill Huizenga.
Candidates have until April 19 to file to run in the Aug. 2 primary.
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Damn, looks pretty good and fair compared to Maryland’s map which looks like a bucket of intertwined snakes… all to the benefit of the DemocRATS, of course.
wow
the democrats don’t gerrymand at all
As 2 of the 10, we need to take out Meijer and Upton at all costs.
And I mean at all costs.
If we are not successful in primarying one or both, vote for the Democrat in that district. Better a Democrat than a RINO.
I was in 7 and now in 8. Looks better but still stuck with Lansing and MSU.
“The Dingell Seat” John D. Dingell Sr. in office March 4, 1933 – September 19, 1955. John Dingell Jr. in office December 13, 1955 – January 3, 2015. Debbie Dingell in office January 3, 2015 - present. 1933 to 2021 = 88 years.
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