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New York’s crucial once-in-a-decade redrawing of congressional and state legislative boundaries broke down along party lines as an “independent” redistricting commission for the second time proposed two competing sets of maps.
The impasse paves the way for lawmakers in Albany to take over the process, with no pretense of bipartisanship.
The 10-member commission –– created via a constitutional amendment approved by state voters in 2014 –– was meant to wrestle control of the map-making out of the hands of politicians after civic groups and Democrats expressed dismay over what they viewed as Republican gerrymandering following the 2010 census.
The group, made up of five Democrats and five Republicans, already had failed to coalesce around one set of maps in September.
At a public meeting on Monday, both sets of appointees complained that the other side wouldn’t compromise enough to make consensus maps possible.
Vice Chair Jack Martins, a Republican appointee, charged that Democrats stopped meeting with the GOP commissioners after Dec. 22.
Chair David Imamura, a Democratic appointee, said that Republicans never sent back counter proposals when his side asked for changes to their maps.
“It disturbs me to no end to see it end on this particular note,” said Elaine Frazier, a Democratic appointee to the commission. “We all worked very hard and I think we came so very close to agreeing with each other — we were surprised and in our surprise we pulled back from a consensus vote.”
5 comments:
Haggle haggle. I love this from the article:
Asian-American activists were frustrated that neither suite of maps linked Sunset Park and Bensonhurst to create Brooklyn’s first majority-Asian State Senate district
We're just openly racist now, and nobody cares, as long as it's not about helping whites. Imagine if whites wanted to pull off a "majority white" district! We'd never hear an end to the wailing.
Oh, and The City is a Commie publication, and like all such, allows no comments. Why is the Left always terrified of allowing people to respond to their propaganda? Because they have no arguments, only emotional outbursts, like babies. Just like our resident Leftie commenter here: never a single point of fact or counter-argument from xir, just ranting and name calling.
Moderate voting Asians must be kept out of power. Asians are the new whites and the state doesn't care about them.
No worries to the woke army of NY, you gave the state Senate a Democratic supermajority and they will implement a lovely gerrymandering map on their own.
Who cares ? NYC is Toast.
The Sheeple are to busy talking about AOC’s maskless Miami brunch date.
I'm surprised that they didn't try to move Malliotakis' district to Mississippi.
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