Sentences with phrase «from gerrymandered»

If congressmen coming from gerrymandered districts with campaigns financed by fossil fuel interests put climate scientists out of work, perhaps those scientists will find lucrative positions where more resources will be made readily available.

You can not work with politicians from gerrymandered districts that fear a more unreasonable TEA party primary much more than they fear Democratic opposition.

The mischief that flows from gerrymandering standards to create a preconceived version of diversity ramifies into consequences that even supporters of group preferences find dispiriting.

Nobody is safe from gerrymandering.

In her highest - profile appearance since sitting down with Wendy Williams earlier this month, Nixon articulated her progressive vision with aplomb, touching on everything from gerrymandering to criminal - justice reform to recreational marijuana legalization.

The picture also boasts a herd of marauding centaurs, riled from the gerrymandering of their territory (Harry Potter 5 with environmental concerns?

Not exact matches

For example, in Illinois, gerrymandering in 2011 led to the House delegation changing from eleven Republicans and eight Democrats to twelve Democrats and six Republicans.

The point of gerrymandering is to achieve a massed result different from the massed popular vote, which is the same criticism leveled at the electoral collage.

If followers from one party flock to live near each other, the gerrymandering happens without redrawing districts.

But he also said he won't back away from his refusal to accept gerrymandered districts, which doesn't leave all that much room for compromise.

Edit: Since this question has created some discussion as to what is Gerrymandering, what is its impact and how can it influence elections, let me suggest something that brings you from zero knowledge to «pretty much aware of the situation»: The redistricting game.

Phillips is from the Binghamton area; Hinchey hails from Ulster County, which just illustrates how ridiculously large (not to mention gerrymandered) the 22nd CD is.

Hinchey's district, which stretches from the Hudson Valley through the Southern Tier to Ithaca, was gerrymandered specifically to protect a Democrat.

The Democrats, who continue to insist they have a shot at winning back the majority this fall despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval of a gerrymandered redistricting map that benefits the GOP, remain more than $ 1 million in debt from the 2010 elections in which they lost control of the chamber.

Our Civil Rights Act bans specifically «racial» gerrymandering, but does not protect us from partisan gerrymandering.

After a state body released redrawn lines for New York's state Senate districts, cries of political gerrymandering were heard from northeast Queens all the way to Albany.

Other finalists met privately with Paterson in December and January, including Gillibrand, then a sophomore member from the old 20th District, which followed the Hudson Valley from Poughkeepsie to Lake Placid but was gerrymandered around Democrat - rich areas in like Albany and Troy.

It amazes me how corrupt the Repub Senate is... from reliance on gerrymandered districts, adding new districts, buying off corrupt / power hungry Democratic Senators to switch parties (both the Pedro coup and now Jeff Klein), and their corrupt fronting for the NYC Charter school and real estate industries they have used every trick in the book to stay in power.

Laws are typically state - wide, affecting all groups at once, so when a party sues the state, the party almost always has something to recover from the investment; even if just a few more gerrymandered statehouse slots or mayors.

Re-drawing constituency boundaries is a long contentious process and is susceptible to efforts to gerrymander the outcome (to seek unfair advantage from fixing precisely where the boundaries are replaced).

The Reform Party has stood proudly against the establishment since 1996, and will not move away from opening the ballots, ending gerrymandering and limiting the influence of lobbyists on legislators.

[78] In July 2005, a new law for electoral reforms was approved which prevented electoral gerrymandering by cutting the number of electoral districts from 25 to 5.

He's rationalized his retreat in increments, from his warning that a court - run redrawing of the lines would result in «chaos,» to the subjective conditions he laid out for an acceptable gerrymander, to his uncharacteristic claim of powerlessness, to his criticism of an independent judge's congressional map, to his lightly supported characterization of the latest gerrymandered legislative draft - map as «progress» from the previous gerrymandered version.

He has boasted about his ability to work with the current Republican leadership, and has been helpful to the conference's efforts to hang onto the majority, from his approval of a majority - gerrymandered district map to his general - election endorsement of a Republican incumbent who had voted for same - sex marriage.

This disparity is tied to the Democrats» inefficient distribution of their votes — primarily resulting from the Democratic vote being naturally more concentrated, and in some cases (such as in North Carolina, where Democrats won four of 13 seats while winning the statewide popular vote in House races) due to gerrymandered maps.

Meanwhile, the memory of the 2004 gerrymander is still fresh in our minds, when Tom DeLay and his cronies redrew district lines that flipped the Texas congressional delegation from 17 - 15 Democratic to 21 - 11 Republican.

On September 23, 2011, opponents of the newly approved congressional district map filed suit in the Missouri 19th Judicial Circuit Court, alleging «partisan gerrymandering and deviations from state constitutional compactness requirements.»

From Liz's link to the NYT: [Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said, «The practice of inmate - based gerrymandering fundamentally undermines the principal of one person, one vote, by reallocating political power to a handful of upstate, rural communities.»]

Further, of 204 elected delegates, 189 would be chosen from New York's 63 state Senate districts, three from each, which Democrats note are heavily gerrymandered in favor of Republican interests.

Senate District 31 is a gem of gerrymandering, running from Marble Hill and Inwood at the upper reaches of Manhattan, through Washington Heights, down a swath of West Harlem and the Upper West Side, into Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea.

The lame - duck Legislature of 1964 met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany from December 15 to 31, 1964, to re-apportion the legislative districts for the election in November 1965, gerrymandering the districts according to the wishes of the Republican majority before the Democrats would take over the Legislature in January.

Added to the normal machinating, wrangling, gerrymandering and abstract sketching that characterizes this year's iteration of the once - a-decade process is the threat of a veto from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has said he will refuse to approve «lines that are not drawn by an independent commission that are partisan.»

Despite having his home district moved southward due to lawmakers» gerrymandering, he has retained broad support from residents of the region.

Governor Cuomo who has threatened a veto if the lines are gerrymandered, and not drawn by an independent panel, has lately been backing away from that stance, and from the legislature's redistricting process altogether.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says if the constitutional amendment is accompanied by a law that also requires the lines to be drawn in a less partisan manner, then it would be at least an improvement from the present system of unlimited gerrymandering.

Three delegates would be elected from each of the state's 63 heavily gerrymandered Senate districts and 15 at large delegates would be elected from the state as a whole.

He insisted for months that he would veto lines that were gerrymandered, but in the end let stand the products of legislative electioneering in exchange for a slew of other agenda items and a constitutional amendment that somewhat wrested the redistricting pen from legislators» hands.

She said there's been «a lot of lying and misinformation» from Republicans since she was elected because they, according to her, gerrymandered the 46th District with the specific purpose of getting 2012 candidate George Amedore elected two years ago.

Elsewhere, primary returns ranged from awful to almost average, showing 14 percent in the incredibly gerrymandered finger - shaped 101st Assembly District, where incumbent Claudia Tenney of Utica trounced Walden Mayor Brian Maher, to 9.8 percent in the new 51st Senate District race, in which veteran Jim Seward blasted challenger Jim Blake by a more than five - to - one margin.

Freshman Representative Chris Gibson (R - Kinderhook) currently represents the 20th district, a gerrymandered area that stretches from Lake Placid to Poughkeepsie and then west of the Catskills.

The Reform Party wants to open the ballot, remove special interest money from politics, and ban gerrymandering.

Labour will get a little momentum from the government's troubles and ideas of a Tory majority in 2015 in spite of the attempted gerrymandering of constituencies is now for the birds.

«Gerrymandering has completely broken our political system and I believe my best platform to help repair it is from the outside, by campaigning for independent redistricting commissions.

Yet, 53 years later we still find stumbling blocks in our paths - from felony laws to aggressive gerrymandering.

Even Democratic legislators that are focused on government reform, such as Assemblymember Robert Carroll, newly elected from Brooklyn, and Manhattan Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, have said they are concerned with the delegate selection process, which allows the representatives to be determined based on heavily gerrymandered Senate districts.

One reason is that there has never been a clear and reliable metric to determine when this type of gerrymandering crosses the line from acceptable politicking to a violation of the US Constitution.

Their analysis of data from other states revealed a partisan gerrymander in Maryland perpetrated by the Democrat - controlled legislature to freeze out its conservative rivals.

«Mathematical theorem finds gerrymandering in Pennsylvania congressional district maps: Theorem detects nonrandomness of a sample from a Markov chain.»

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

«Our democracy faces challenges today that can be remedied by state courts, from entrenched gerrymandering that dilutes and distorts voters» influence in elections to barriers to voting participation that disproportionally impact historically disenfranchised minorities.»