(Rep.) Judge rejects NC Legislature's redrawn House-Senate maps

The News & Observer ^ | Friday, May 31, 2002 3:20PM EDT | SCOTT MOONEYHAM

[billbears]

ping!!

[Constitution Day]

ALL RIGHT!!!!!!

[Deport Billary]

I'm curious to see whether the propellor blade districts are gone.

[Deport Billary]

Because I'm in one of them

[Constitution Day]

NC jumping-for-joy PING!

[jern]

- Proposed House Plan - Sutton 5 -

"Proposed House Plan - Sutton 5" was made public on May 17, 2002 by House Legislative Redistricting Committee co-chair Representative Ronnie Sutton. It was passed by the House and Senate and ratified on May 17, 2002. It became SL 2002-1 on May 20, 2002. A House Districts Correction bill was passed on May 21, 2002, changing Districts 8 and 23 to correct the inadvertent misplacement of Edgecombe County Precinct 3-1. See Senate Bill 3 for the bill text of the correction bill.

[jern]

- Proposed Senate Plan - Fewer Divided Counties -

"Proposed Senate Plan - Fewer Divided Counties" was made public on May 17, 2002 by Senate Legislative Redistricting Committee co-chair Senator Brad Miller. It was passed by the Senate and House and ratified on May 17, 2002. It became SL 2002-1 on May 20, 2002. See House Bill 4 for the complete list of geographic units contained in each district. .

[southernnorthcarolina]

I'm surprised to hear there are "wholesale changes" in the Senate map, but only five changes in the House map. I had thought that the Senate map was much closer to meeting the requirements set by the judge.

In any event, great news. I'm most anxious to see the Judge's map. Perhaps they'll be up on the General Assembly website soon.

[jern]

Please note those are the proposed maps, not the new ones

[snopercod]

So when do we get to vote?

[southernnorthcarolina]

New Senate plan by Judge Jenkins:

[Constitution Day]

Good question... I don't know, though. 8-(

[southernnorthcarolina]

New House plan by Judge Jenkins:

[Constitution Day]

If I'm looking at that map correctly, it appears that the areas most carved-up are around Greensboro, Raleigh and Charlotte.

[snopercod]

Interesting. Your link was to a .png file (whatever the heck that is), which my older Netscape browser doesn't recognize. I can't view it.

[Constitution Day]

Your link was to a .png file

The "png" stands for Portable Network Graphics, and I think it's a fairly new format.

[southernnorthcarolina]

I'm curious to see whether the propellor blade districts are gone.

They're not, it least insofar as the house districts linking Anson with Montgomery, and Richmond with northern Stanly are concerned. I'm surprised that wasn't cleaned up, but I suspect it has to do with the creation of an additional minority district (a policy which is abhorrant to me, as it's nothing but racism pure and simple, but which actually benefits Republicans).

[southernnorthcarolina]

Bummer. Here's a link to the General Assembly web site, but you'll probably run into the same problem. Worth a shot, though.

[blackbag]

Thanks for the ping. I am hopeing Jenkins plan is an improvement. The senate plan is pretty clean. It appears the split up house plan still groups minority districts. Curious if this is a benefit to the minority community. Their was a time when the R's and the Minoritiy districts were aligned to correct the maps.