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2 comments:
I remember way back in the day when citizens actually voted for representation.
Bless someone else's God for this Supreme court made up of a majority of Corrupt bought republicans wearing robes, using personal religious zealotry to replace the use of legal bindings of existing laws.
I do not need a memory to know that ,
"republicans really truly care about us. Cross their hearts and hope to die".
For the GOP constantly tell us. While never talking to us. Talk at us, yes. To us , no.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/10/congress_midterm_elections_republicans_flip_seats
No fair understanding stuff:
//So, every 10 years with the census, the state has to redistrict, from the local to the congressional level. And there was a ballot measure which stated that if the Independent Redistricting Commission, a commission that had been created by Governor Cuomo, which had the same number of Democrats and Republicans — if that commission could not agree on a set of maps, then a simple majority of the Legislature would suffice in creating new maps. And as we know, whenever you create a commission with the same number of Democrats and Republicans, with the stakes as high as redistricting, there is a very low likelihood of them agreeing on any one set of maps. So we knew that it was going to come to the Legislature. And if this referendum had been passed, then it would have ensured that the Legislature had a clear mandate from New Yorkers to redraw those maps.
The Legislature — the referendum did not pass. The Legislature drew its own maps. And then the Republicans sued those maps in court. And the highest court, the judges specifically who were appointed by Andrew Cuomo, sided with the Republicans and used this referendum as part of the justification for why those new maps had to be thrown out. And as a consequence, they ordered a special master, which is a title of an individual who drew new maps for the state of New York, to draw these maps. And many of these maps ended up being far more favorable to Republicans than the ones that would have been passed had we passed that referendum.//
What did someone once call it? Clout club?
Blah blah sausage-making blah
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