[CedarDave]

The reason this decision is so late in coming from a state judge is that about a half-dozen other judges recused themselves from hearing the case for differing reasons.

The previous map generally had NM-1 as Albuquerque and immediate surrounding area (Bernalillo County), NM-2 as southern New Mexico and NM-3 as northern New Mexico. NM-2 currently has the only Pub representative and Lea County in far SE New Mexico is very Republican and the county itself is the number one oil and gas producing county in the US. As I reside in the newly gerrymandered area, I now have lost my representative and am in the same district as the radical environmental progressives in Santa Fe who want to cancel the oil and gas industry.

[Fido969]

Meanwhile the Stupid Party rolls over on redistricting.

[Spok]

What’s interesting is that it’s the Democrats who can’t survive democracy. If they can’t gerrymander voting districts or stuff ballot boxes they’re finished and everybody knows it!

[Savage Rider]

“To require a change this late in the game would bring a level of chaos to the process that is not in the public’s or the candidates’ interests,” If you let the primaries go ahead, and then change the map, there will also be chaos. The judge should have moved this along quicker and made a decision.

[Sirius Lee]

Meanwhile over at GOP headquarters...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Setting up congressional districts based on skin tone and ethnicity is the most damned racist thing the RAT ‘white supremacist’ DNC crackers can do. We aren’t supposed to be “native’ Americans, African Americans or Mexican Americans when we vote. We’re all supposed to be AMERICANS. Making the state districts look like a zigsaw puzzle on acid is flat moronic. If you’re something other than an American, your ass shouldn’t be voting anyway. Gerrymandering is (like the kids say) GAY! It’s homosexual too.

[Wizdum]

With this new map, the Dims will not have to go through the expense of creating votes to win election.

[CedarDave]

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