Posted on 11/15/2022 5:54:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed that gerrymandering worked “pretty good up there in New York” for Republicans.
Clyburn said, “We need to win this election down in Georgia, this runoff, and I call upon all Georgians, people who think that it is the right thing to do to preserve the integrity of the ballot to come out and vote in this runoff election. 51 is a little better than 50 plus 1. And then what we’ve got to have is really some conversations with people. I do believe — we never would have passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 if it had not been for the leadership of Republicans. I’ll always believe that it was bringing Democrats and Republicans together that allowed Lyndon Johnson to get that bill across the line. Democrats and Republicans should come together in this lame-duck session and pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act so that we can preserve the integrity of our elections. The gerrymandering did not work as well as they had hoped. It did work pretty good up there in New York, but it did not work as people had hoped. Let’s stop all the foolishness. Let’s preserve the integrity of the ballot. Let’s pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Let’s pass a bill to do something about reforming the Electoral College so that people will have faith and confidence when they go to the polls that their votes will be counted and their voices will have been heard.”
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Gerrymandering works pretty good for both parties. That’s why return rate is over 95%. And it’s also why it’ll never stop. Both parties like to point out the other one’s gerrymandering but neither is actually against it.
Clyburn should shut his considerable mouth and come to Maryland.
Arundel County, where Annapolis is located, is a Republican county and has had FOUR Democrat congressmen for years.
He’s not the first to openly talk about ramming through legislation in the lame duck session. I am waiting for Elizabeth Warren to open her pie hole about bankruptcy reform. There has been a bill sitting in the House (since before Joe Biden was inaugurated) that would make student loan debt dischargeable in bankruptcy. No hearings, no markups to date. I fully expect them to take that off the shelf in the next 45 days and pass it, while they still can.
It doesn't sound like a Republican county to me.
The state is run by the dims. The Repubs don’t have a voice in drawing the districts. The liberal courts overturned the dims gerrymandered map and had it redrawn.
And it worked pretty well for you Demo-Comms in a lor of other places like Pennsylvania and Michigan and Illinois
Rigging the voting machines and throwing out mail-in ballots works even better for Democrats.
>> I do believe — we never would have passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 if it had not been for the leadership of Republicans.
That’s because it was REPUBLICANS that passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Democrats tried to filibuster it.
Or maybe a lot of suburban & rural New Yorkers didn’t like the way the government was being run there? Not enough apparently.
Um, In New York who draws the redistricting maps? And who controls the New York State Assembly?
New York has 26 House seats. Under the failed Democratic gerrymander of the state, the GOP would have won just four of them. That’s about 15% of the state’s U.S. House seats. Pretty sure the GOP won more than 15% of the vote in New York.
“The state is run by the dims. The Repubs don’t have a voice in drawing the districts. The liberal courts overturned the dims gerrymandered map and had it redrawn.”
Precisely.
Meanwhile in North Carolina, where Republicans otherwise had an excellent night one week ago, liberal judges saw to it that Democrats prevailed in the House delegation.
I believe the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that while the Democrat gerrymander had to be used in 2022, the Republicans in the state legislature will get to redraw the lines for 2024. If so, that should be +2 seats (if not more, depending how greedy they get) for the GOP in 2 years.
Exactly the same thing happened here in PA, with liberal judges taking control of redistricting away from the Republican legislature, so I was hoping the N.C. ruling might apply in PA too.
Sadly, now it’s too late. Because thanks to the Democrat gerrymander of the STATE level districts, the GOP no longer controls the state House unless we win some close races that are still uncalled AFAIK. And after 2024 we are likely to no longer control the state Senate either.
Unless we can get a court to overturn the gerrymander now & redraw the lines fairly, have honest elections in 2024 to regain control, and..... aaaaaaah forget it. This is Pennsylvania.
It wasn’t gerrymandering in NY- the rats tried to gerrymander but the courts ruled it was way out of bounds and put it in the hands of a marshall (or something to that extent).
The rats caused the issue in NY. The fact Clyburn would allege such a thing further proves how ignorant he is
THEN-—THOSE deadbeat students can have that bankruptcy on THEIR records——
It has a Republican county executive and a 5-2 Republican margin on the county council. It has four Democrat congressman each representing a sliver of the county tied into four Democrat districts outside of the county.
Its insane gerrymandering and its been going on for years.
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