Sentences with phrase «republican redistricting plans»

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey testifies July 13, 2011, at legislative hearing on Republican redistricting plans in Madison.

The Governor's veto of the Republican redistricting plan in May and court intervention in previous decades suggests that court involvement is likely.

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In the 27th SD, which is only slated to exist for another eight months, thanks to the Senate GOP's redistricting plan and the desire to create a so - called «super Jewish» district, both Republican David Storobin and Democratic NYC Councilman Lew Fidler insisted they had won — yet another bizarre twist in a campaign that has been full of them.

The district has been long sought by Republicans and it has been the focus of several expensive races since a 2012 redistricting plan.

Also, this has to sting for the Senate Democrats, to whom Cuomo has not only refused to commit to supporting in their quest to win back the majority this fall, but arguably has actively screwed by working closely with the Senate Republicans and signing their gerrymandered redistricting plan into law.

Working against him is the GOP's big fundraising edge and the fact that Cuomo signed off on the Republicans» redistricting plan than dramatically improved their chances of remaining in charge.

I found that particularly interesting, since Gov. Andrew Cuomo has so far studiously avoided taking sides in the re-match between the Democrats and Republican for control of the majority (although it could be, and has been, argued that he showed his preference by signing the GOP's redistricting plan into law).

For the 2010 elections, Republicans created the Redistricting Majority Project (REDMAP) with the plan of flipping state legislative chambers to take control of the redistricRedistricting Majority Project (REDMAP) with the plan of flipping state legislative chambers to take control of the redistrictingredistricting process.

The North Carolina congressional delegation was heavily Democratic until 2012 when the Republicans had occasion, after the 2010 United States census, to adopt a redistricting plan of their choosing.

At the time, Republicans wanted to have a redistricting plan in place that would protect the minority party in the event the GOP lost in 1980, and Democrats agreed out of concern that their own party could be the one to lose.

The relationship saga between Cuomo and the Senate Democrats over the last six months has featured the governor signing off on a state legislative redistricting plan that is favorable to the majority Republicans in the chamber and repeatedly refusing to say whether he supports a Democratic takeover of the chamber.

He would be running in the so - called «Super-Jewish» district proposed by the Senate Republicans, assuming their redistricting plan withstands the Democrats» court challenge.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

Also in Ohio, a battleground state with a Republican governor and a Republican - controlled Legislature, voters approved a plan to establish a commission to oversee redistricting for legislative seats.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just issued a statement insisting he and his 31 felllow Republicans will honor their redistricting reform pledge to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, but declined to go into detail on how, exactly, he plans to do that.

But so far, no concrete proposals have seen the light of day, with the exception of the governor's redistricting reform bill — a plan the Senate Republicans have yet to embrace.

New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels told me on CapTon last night he plans to up the ante in his push for redistricting reform by targeting two Republican senators in their home districts.

The Senate Republican lawmakers who filed suit challenging the 2010 law based on how to count prisoners for purposes of redistricting plan to end their legal challenge, two sources familiar with the plan said this afternoon.

Back in March when a series of late - night votes were held on a package of contentious legislation, the Democratic minority conference walked out of the chamber in protest while Senate Republicans push forward on a vote that would ultimately approve the passage of a lawmaker - drawn redistricting plan for state offices.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The New York Senate's Republican majority proposed a legislative redistricting plan Thursday that contorted what are supposed to be compact election districts into some odd shapes to connect dwindling Republican pockets in the blue state.

How, as a result of the 2000 census, he and his protege, fellow GOP Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R - PA), became the «Bullies - in - Chief» in Pennsylvania, and bullied the Pennsylvania Legislature into a statewide redistricting plan that gave Republicans a 5 seat majority in the Congressional delegation.

For two years, the governor had worked productively with Senate Republicans and their silver - haired majority leader, Dean Skelos, dangling a favorable redistricting plan to win pension reform in 2012.

Four of these five officials were Republican, and the resulting redistricting plans were seen as favorable to Republicans.

Celeste Katz: State Senate Republicans have decided that bigger is better: Senate officials, in a memo posted on the Legislature's redistricting website late Friday afternoon, confirmed plans to add another seat to the 62 - member chamber, arguing the state Constitution mandates such a move.

Democrats criticized the 2003 redistricting plan, citing the lack of precedent for redistricting twice in a decade (a so - called «mid-decade» redistricting) and argued that it was conducted for purely political gain by the Republican Party.

The district picks up republican voters under the special master's redistricting plan which is expected to be approved later this week, and is now expected to have a plus 7 in the Cook partisan voting rating.

Following the major trend of Texas's 2011 redistricting cycle, Democrats immediately railed against the Republican plan for not giving enough representation to minorities, even going as far as calling the map illegal.

Rep. Chet Edwards, the only Democrat targeted by Texas Republicans in their 2003 redistricting plan to win in November 2004, has spent most of his time raising campaign cash.

But in the state Senate, where Democrats are hobbled by a redistricting plan drawn by Senate Republican lawmakers (and signed off on by Cuomo) and the poor image of dysfunction and corruption from their time in control, the minority conference still holds out hope that the presidential election year will help put them over the top.

(Of course, now the Senate Republicans appear to be balking on the independent redistricting piece of that, but Koch insists he plans to hold everyone's feet to the fire on that).

Prosecutors said that the money helped the GOP win control of the Texas House and that the majority then pushed through a DeLay - organized congressional redistricting plan that sent more Republicans to Congress.

That would in essence give Senate Republicans permanent veto power over any redistricting plan Senate Democrats would put forward if they win control of that chamber in the next decade.

The Maine Republican Party's redistricting plan doesn't do much to make Rep. Mike Michaud (D) more vulnerable.

1) The Supreme Court rules the Texas redistricting plan unconstitutional: Previous lines are restored and (depending on if they are used for the 2006 elections) Democrats gain six seats in the House and Republicans lose 6.

Democratic legislators in Texas employed a similar tactic in 2003 to try to stop a controversial redistricting plan that gave Republicans more seats in Congress.

After Cuomo okayed a redistricting plan in March that favored Republicans in the Senate over Democrats, Democrats boycotted the remainder of an all night session that included many bills on the governor's agenda.

The Republican minority, however, would gain bargaining power and the ability to help override or sustain a veto on important issues such as the adoption of a state budget or even a redistricting plan.

In January, a three - judge federal district court panel in North Carolina struck down that state's congressional redistricting plan because it was drawn by Republicans «motivated by invidious partisan intent,» according to the opinion.

The Supreme Court issued three opinions today, upholding a Republican - engineered Congressional redistricting plan in Texas (League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry), upholding a Pennsylvania ban on newspapers and magazines for prison inmates (Beard v. Banks) and ruling that states may bar foreign nationals from raising treaty rights not raised at trial (Sanchez - Llamas v. Oregon).

Surprised the Florida Legislature didn't try this: Just as happened in Florida a few years ago, the state supreme court in Pennsylvania overturned a partisan, gerrymandered congressional redistricting plan and, after the Republican - led state legislature and the Democratic governor couldn't agree on a new one, the court drew one up and ordered it to be put in place.