Sentences with phrase «gerrymandered districts»

They do need to be held to account by the people, not just the ones in their gerrymandered districts, especially if they are chairing committees.

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.

@ToddSullivan We need structural reform 2 end that given gerrymandered districts.

Gerrymandered districts produce ideologues.

And heavily gerrymandered districts are more likely to be geographically spread out and of unusual shape.

In a separate analysis, Daniel McGlone, a geographic - information - system data analyst at the technology firm Azavea in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked each state's voting districts for compactness as a measure of gerrymandering, and found that Maryland had the most - gerrymandered districts.

If the State Senate remains in Democratic hands, after the clownish couple of years it's been through and voters» universal disgust with Albany — gerrymandered districts notwithstanding — that would be another depressing sign for the state GOP.

In 2011, his first year as Governor, he promised to veto gerrymandered districts; instead he settled for a half - measure that won't take effect until 2022.

Dr. Alan Chartock discusses WAMC's upcoming fund drive today to support the victims of Hurricane Harvey, President Trump's visit to Houston, and developments in the fight to fix gerrymandered districts.

Instead, he's floating a flim - flam amendment that couldn't take effect until 2014 — and would hamstring voters with gerrymandered districts for a decade.

Blair Horner of NYPIRG, Susan Lerner of Common Cause, and Jesse Laymon of Effective New York present mock awards for most gerrymandered districts in the NYS legislature

As New York prepares for the once - a-decade redistricting process based on census data, Gov. Cuomo has proposed that the electoral map be redrawn by an independent commission as opposed to the legislature, which has created some highly - gerrymandered districts in the past.

Two of the three districts that encompass parts of Woodhaven have been referred to as among «the 20 ugliest gerrymandered districts.»

New York's Republican conference remains solely in power thanks to terribly gerrymandered districts rubberstamped by Cuomo in 2012 and the IDC's gamesmanship.

If approved, the constitution will require that «districts shall not be drawn to discourage competition or for the purpose of favoring or disfavoring incumbents or other particular candidates or political parties» — language that will allow courts to strike down gerrymandered districts.

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, — Republican entered the 2002 election with brand - new gerrymandered districts to protect their 10 incumbents.

Mahoney says the governor scored with an ethics agreement in 2011, but struck out this year when it came to redistricting, agreeing to a plan that permitted gerrymandered districts.

ALBANY — Many supporters of the state referendum to convene a constitutional convention are citing as reason the possibilities to diminish incumbent - friendly campaign finance laws, enact term limits and end gerrymandered districts.

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

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.

By under - populating districts with one party and overpopulating others, the majority party can shift the balance of power without raising alarms through oddly shaped, gerrymandered districts.

The voting population of gerrymandered districts is distributed so as to provide «safe» margins of victory in many districts while «wasting» opposition votes concentrated in a few districts.

There is still a popular vote election in gerrymandered districts and the result determines the winner.

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.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

Later, when Avella charged that Senate Republicans «have done something absolutely disgraceful» in gerrymandering district lines to protect their majority, Nozzolio fired back.

But he hasn't faced a challenge in years because he's in a safe, gerrymandered district.

She was running with a cash disadvantage, in a GOP - gerrymandered district, with little name recognition and a hard - to - pronounce name.

When the lines for state Senate and state Assembly seats were unveiled last week, the drawn districts were widely criticized across the borough and viewed as breaking up communities and gerrymandering the districts to suit elected officials.

She said Cuomo encouraged a «backroom deal» to get a group of Democratic senators to vote with the Senate GOP so that Republicans could keep control of the state Senate and added that he allowed the Republicans to draw their own gerrymandered district maps — a move she says suppressed Democratic voters.

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.

«In 2010 Republicans had control of the Senate, and in doing so, were able to gerrymander districts like the 60th District.

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.

The GOP has gerrymandered the district.

• The power of state lawmakers to gerrymander districts to preserve their own perches, and to ultimately control their own ethics reviews.

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

That is why the TEAPublicans play all the games they do (gerrymandering districts, playing games with primary datres to hold down turnout, and taking the money of the downstate realty billionaires to buy upstate seats)!

One of the byproducts of the Senate GOP's plan to gerrymander the district of their most vulnerable member, Sen. Mark Grisanti, so it's entirely within the boundaries of Erie County is that the Conservative Party endorsement will be controlled by local officials and not state Chairman Mike Long.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, is urging a no vote, as is Common Cause, saying it's «fake» reform and would enshrine in the state constitution lawmakers» ability to gerrymander the districts.

When the State Senate and Assembly deadlocked over how to gerrymander the districts, he allowed a court to draw the Congressional lines for New York without offering any input.

They voted to require applicants for public assistance to take drug tests before receiving benefits and they passed legislation changing the elections for the Wake County School Board and gerrymandering the district lines to make it easier for Republicans to get elected.

Not exact matches

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

«I am worried that because of the impact that gerrymandering has had on many of the districts that it may be hard to make big changes» in the 2018 elections, Powell said.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

There's a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts look like?

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Even House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck, a dedicated foe of anything but smokestacks in the dunes area, squeezed through his gerrymandered Second District by a relative whisker.

The logic involved in these examples can apply generally, and the more seats there are per district, the less combined rounding error is created and so the less room there is for gerrymandering.