Stopping ‘Gerrymandering’ politics heats up
By Len Lazarick [email protected] Elbridge Gerry was born 273 years ago Monday, but Common Cause, the League of Women Voters
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By Len Lazarick [email protected] Elbridge Gerry was born 273 years ago Monday, but Common Cause, the League of Women Voters
Read moreBy Barry Rascovar For MarylandReporter.com Taken together, developments in Georgia (a special election) and Wisconsin (redistricting lawsuit) have been read
Read moreBy Barry Rascovar For MarylandReporter.com Holy mackerel! Can you believe this? Former Gov. Martin O’Malley has admitted politics played a
Read moreBy Len Lazarick [email protected] Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley now says he supports “non-partisan redistricting commissions not only for drawing
Read moreThe Redistricting Reform Commission. (Howard Gorrell) By Len Lazarick [email protected] To some politicians and pundits, the governor’s Redistricting Reform Commission
Read moreBy Len Lazarick [email protected] Gov. Larry Hogan’s Redistricting Reform Commission wrapped up its fifth and final regional hearing Tuesday night
Read moreLt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford points to map of 3rd Congressional District held by Carol Ann Hecht of the National Council
Read more“Democracy is not served well by a method of redistricting that supports distorted districts that were drawn in 2012, seemingly to keep people in power,” said Susan Cochran, president of the League of Women Voters. “We need a fair and open process…with communities kept together. This will result in congressional representatives and their constituents better able to form a constructive relationship.”
Read moreOver the rivers and through the woods, two dozen runners and bikers will start a 3-day super marathon Friday morning to traverse the 225-mile perimeter of Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, the second most gerrymandered seat in the country.
The “gerrymander meander” is organized by Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, and the Annapolis section of the National Council of Jewish Women to encourage Maryland to reform its highly partisan process of congressional redistricting
Read moreMaryland’s controversial legislative redistricting is again the target of bills designed to overhaul the process and make it less partisan. Legislators are trying to introduce transparency and civic participation into the redistricting procedure, which now leaves the governor in control and the process wide open to political gerrymandering.
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