I got my new election card in the mail… and on the notice, there it was: an indication that my district has been changed, thanks to Maryland’s horrifically gerrymandered new maps. WHICH IS GREAT. I have no idea what Dutch Ruppersberger’s district’s new partisan numbers are, but they were D+7 last time; and Elijah Cummings’ (my pre-redistricting Congressman) was D+25. There’s no chance at all that Ruppersberger did that well out of the process.
So: while the Democrats may have screwed over most of their constituents – particularly minority ones, who really should haven’t have had Montgomery County sliced up the way that it was* – at least I’m doing better out of the deal.
Moe Lane
*The question is, does the Supreme Court agree with me? Well, we’ll find out.
I will likely be redistrict from the FL-05 to FL-08. Daniel Webster isn’t getting me, I’m getting Daniel Webster.
I’ve spent most of my life in the Interstate 85 district in NC… usually a top-five contender in every Worst Gerrymandering list that comes around.
I’m in Sarbane Jr’s comical 3rd district. The worst was the addition of Montgomery County to the 6th in an attempt to get rid of ol’ Rosco. Montgomery County doesn’t have a lot in common with Cumberland and the rest of that rural district.