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Posted on 02/06/2022 8:46:52 PM PST by 11th_VA
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The five-member commission redrawing the boundaries of Pennsylvania's state legislative districts voted Friday to approve new maps for the next decade, with a focus on the state's fast-growing Latino population that could change the face of the predominantly white House and Senate.
The Legislative Reapportionment Commission voted 4-1 during a meeting in the Capitol, with chair Mark Nordenberg, the Senate Republican leader and the House and Senate Democratic leaders voting for it. A lawsuit challenging it, however, is likely.
The vote came after nearly a year of meetings, hearings and closed-door discussions to carry out the constitutionally required, once-a-decade map-drawing to account for demographic shifts identified by the census.
In comments before the vote, House Minority Leader Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, called the House map a “fair, constitutionally sound map.”
Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, called the new Senate map “truly a product for the public and by the public.” Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, called it “imperfect,” but said she was confident that it is constitutional.
Nordenberg, a Democrat and a former University of Pittsburgh chancellor appointed by the state Supreme Court, quoted testimony from a political science professor from George Washington University who called it a fair, if slightly Republican-leaning, map.
Nordenberg also quoted from a letter by three Latino members of the Legislature that applauded the map and said it has nine districts “in which Latino communities should be able to elect their candidates of choice."
Those nine “minority opportunity” districts – seven in the House, two in the Senate – have heavy concentrations of racial minorities, and at least some have no incumbent...
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The July 2021 U.S. Census Bureau estimate is 7.8%!
“with a focus on the state’s fast-growing Latino population”
Why? Is there something special about them?
They were never slaves. Quite the opposite: their ancestors brought the first slaves to the Americas. After they enslaved the indigenous on Hispaniola and worked them to death.
Maybe they’re special because they were the sworn enemies of the Protestant Americans who the Spanish Crown had been fighting for hundreds of years. But the descendants of those people lost pretty much every war they fought with the Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans.
So I guess I’m mystified to this day, 50 years after the Nixon administration decided to create the phony category “hispanic” and make them a Protected Class eligible for affirmative action and preferential treatment under the law, even getting their own political districts to make sure they they have “a voice” in our government.
Funny. I don’t recall Polish Catholics getting that when they showed up in PA back about 100 years ago. Or Ookrainians. Or Hungarians. Or Italians. Or Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenians, Serbians, Croatians etc etc ad infinitum.
Nope. Just the people who came here on jet airplanes or by force at the Southern border, with an armed Coyote trafficker helping them break in.
So how long does that last? Do we have to check with Sandra O’Connor to see when she’s happy? When they are the majority and the national language is - at long last! - Spanish?
Would love to know. Thought the 14th Amendment said we wuz all equal.
Guess some are more equal then others.
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Another reason for conservatives to despise RMN...after the “normalization” with China.
RMN is the real origin of the Coup-flu.
So when was this voted on by the public? Nobody asked me.
Pennsylvania will now be a permanent guaranteed vote in the communist column...
Soros continues his winning streak...
GOP continues to masturbate in one big circle...
Just like any corrupt organization, you need to keep 2 sets of books.....
When the radical lefty Reps from Philadelphia say this is fair... Then it’s totally corrupt and unfair. My guess, are these panzy Republicans are taking a quick deal in order to keep it out of the courts which thay probably feel would be far worse. Screw them I’m tired of these radicals cheating and getting their way.
Somehow I suspect the commission is closer to the truth...
The GOP wing of the uniparty folded right on plan, I’d imagine.
PA is on its way to becoming NY state. Democrats control their legislature, and their new legislative districting cut the number of Republican congressional districts to 3 in the entire state. This was done by gerrymandering.
When Democrats have power, they use it. They use it without shame. They win. Republicans punt on first down. Pussies. Every last one of them.
These days, Census Bureau population counts are probably every bit as accurate and trustworthy as Democrat vote counts.
But even assuming the Bureau’s 2020 “official” numbers are correct, PA is 8.07% Hispanic, not 12% or anywhere near it.
Obviously the Republican political squishes in PA got rolled yet again, probably quite willingly. For whatever it’s worth (pretty much nothing) Republicans have controlled both Houses of the state legislature almost without interruption since the early 1990s. In reality they control very little, since Democrats always vote united as a bloc, while the Republican contingent consists mainly of Assistant Democrats who happily derail almost any legislation which might be remotely conservative.
So now they want to drop the charade and let Democrats have control permanently. After what happened in 2020, RINOs must be greatly relieved that they will have no power in 2023 to deal with more Democrat vote fraud after the Rats take 11 of PA’s 17 U.S. House seats — after the appropriate Democrat gerrymander is mandated by the PA Democrat Supreme Court again, and that’s coming up shortly.
Instead of pretending to be concerned, the RINO state legislators can just throw up their hands and say “We don’t have control anymore, there’s nothing we can do!”
The commission is counting all the new “Pennsylvania citizens” the Joe Biden flew into Pennsylvania in the last few months… You know all those brand new “American citizens” who danced across our border and gave us all the middle finger while doing so…
You summed it up well.
Talk about fighting the last war. Hispanics are trending Republican.
“Talk about fighting the last war. Hispanics are trending Republican.”
Some second, third (or more) generation Mexicans in South Texas are trending Republican? Yes, at least they did in 2020.
Puerto Ricans / Dominicans / Mexicans in urbanized eastern PA trending Republican? Let’s see some proof of that, outside of the small city of Hazelton.
Odd how rigging works huh.
As far as PA is concerned, I know two PR relatives by marriage in the Lehigh Valley who voted for Trump, and know that he improved his margins in the Hispanic wards in NE Philly, but haven’t seen any evidence of a shift there.
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