Sentences with phrase «gerrymandered lines»

It's the kind of The - Albany - Game - is - Rigged thing that Cuomo ran against in 2010, promising to veto gerrymandered lines produced by the legislative commission, known as LATFOR.

But I suppose that is a rather insignificant observation when you look at what New York Public Interest Group's Bill Mahoney has to say about the proposed maps as a whole.He says, the Senate's maps are, «clearly the most gerrymandered lines in recent New York History.»

It drew what critics said were gerrymandered lines for Senate and Assembly districts.

On Thursday, in his trademark, «What You Should Know» release, Bronx State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. blasted Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for creating «the most gerrymandered lines in recent New York history.»

Late last night, the governor and legislature reached a deal on redistricting that essentially allows the State Senate's and Assembly's partisan majorities to put in place gerrymandered lines for the next decade, and creates the framework for a constitutional amendment to govern future redistrictings that creates a bipartisan commission to submit lines to the legislature for approval.

Dick Dadey, with Citizen's Union says Cuomo should negotiate for less egregiously gerrymandered lines, and try to win agreement on a constitutional amendment to enact a more independent process, beginning in the next round of redistricting in 2022.

Using logic reminiscent of Mario Cuomo, a reform advocate who nevertheless signed into law gerrymandered lines on the premise that they were preferable to lines drawn by the courts, Benjamin laments that the judge is «unelected» and therefore accountable for mistakes in the map he or she draws.

Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group said a statistical analysis shows the Senate's proposal is «clearly the most gerrymandered lines» in at least 30 years.

Cuomo signed gerrymandered lines because he thinks the Senate Democrats lack leadership, principle and an agenda compatible with his, according to «a source close to the Cuomo administration.»

Not exact matches

The odds that someone trying to gerrymander multi-member districts will screw it up and end up hurting (or at least not helping) the party that they are trying to favor when they draw district lines is much greater.

Because one measure of political gerrymandering is the relative «compactness» of a districts, since complicated demographic juggling often yields boundary lines that drift all over the map.

Cuomo, however, said the process commonly referred to as gerrymandering, which involves drawing a jigsaw puzzle of lines in order to keep incumbent parties in power, needs to end.

Governor Cuomo has threatened in the past to veto new district lines that are gerrymandered, and not done by an independent commission, but Cuomo has remained silent on the subject in recent weeks.

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.

In January, it vigorously objected to the gerrymandered State Senate lines that split Woodhaven three ways.

Government reform groups are split over whether an amendment on the November ballot to change the way legislative district lines are drawn is an improvement, or will make only make gerrymandering worse.

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.

«When it comes to the Senate lines, the people of Woodhaven are being treated as pawns in Albany's gerrymandering games,» said Alexander Blenkinsopp, spokesman for the association.

Lawmakers heard numerous accusations that the new lines were «gerrymandered» and say the proposed maps are not set in stone.

Governor Cuomo in 2011 threatened to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and politically partisan.

The topic has been the elephant in the room during much of this year, with Governor Cuomo threatening to veto any lines that are gerrymandered and not drawn in a non partisan manner.

And going back to pre-Sandy days, the Democrats were none too thrilled that Cuomo declined to intercede when the Senate and Assembly failed to agree on a redistricting plan for the congressional lines, kicking the matter to the courts and resulting in a far less gerrymandered outcome than a politically - controlled process would likely have produced.

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.

Despite all the speculation on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo will stick to his pledge to veto LATFOR's gerrymandered and politically influenced district lines, there's a growing possibility that he'll never get the chance because the maps — as they currently stand — might not make it out of the Legislature at all.

«My prediction, is sadly that in the year 2022, I'll be running around trying to get the governor to veto the lines, saying they are still gerrymandered and they look funny,» Horner said.

If you have issues with these lines, understand gerrymandering is not only Republican.

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.

In response to this obvious gerrymandering, a 2010 referendum in California gave the power to redraw congressional district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which had been created to draw California State Senate and Assembly districts by another referendum in 2008.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

Then he allowed the Republicans to gerrymander the Senate district lines in order to try to hang on to a majority even though there are two million more enrolled Democrats in the state.

The phrase racial gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to dilute the voting power of racial minority groups.

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.

The term gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to favor one political party, individual, or constituency over another.

A new poll finds that while New Yorkers still think very highly of Governor Cuomo, they are not as happy with recent developments in Albany that include a secretive, middle of the night legislative session, and gerrymandered legislative district lines.

Sue Lerner, with Common Cause, is urging the governor to follow through on his original threat to veto the lines if they are gerrymandered.

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.»

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.

Diaz Sr. wrapped up his missive by calling these lines a «disgrace» and «the most gerrymandered... in recent New York history.»

Around three quarters, 76 %, believe the «lack of transparency» over the policy issues decided that night are a «serious» problem, and 68 % were concerned about the gerrymandered new district lines.

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.

«When it comes to the Senate lines, the people of Woodhaven are being treated as pawns in Albany's gerrymandering games.»

The new district lines were released last week, and immediately criticized by numerous government reform groups as partisan and blatantly gerrymandered.

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.

This month, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected district lines drawn by a Texas court because they gave no weight to a (roundly criticized, obviously gerrymandered) plan passed by legislators.

Eventually Cuomo gave up his pledge to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and agreed to new lines that drastically favored Senate Republicans, even creating a 63rd district upstate that suspiciously carved its way around major population centers and incorporated rural towns populated by more voters who were more likely Republican.

Reaction to the state and congressional maps was drastically different, with independent groups and elected officials blasting the state lines as gerrymandered to keep Senate Republicans in power, while praising the congressional lines drawn by a court - appointed judge as fairly drawn.

However, Pahaham, who lives on 214th Street, switched races after the City Council adopted new district lines, on the grounds that the move was tantamount to gerrymandering.

Holding the majority in the Senate by a slim 32 - 30 margin, the GOP drew the district lines which the Democrats says are egregiously gerrymandered to protect Republican senators.

«A vote no against this amendment essentially preserves the status quo, and the status quo involves the Legislature drawing its own lines and continuing a decades - long practice of partisan gerrymandering,» Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey told journalists during a Tuesday conference call.