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Maryland Democrats target lone Republican in redistricting scheme
The Hill ^ | BY REID WILSON - 11/19/21

Posted on 11/19/2021 6:59:03 PM PST by 11th_VA

Maryland Democrats are considering a radical overhaul of congressional district lines that would give them a chance to win all eight of the state’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, putting the lone Republican representative at risk.

Two of the four draft maps released by the General Assembly’s Legislative Redistricting Advisory Commission spell trouble for Rep. Andy Harris (R), who represents a district that covers the Eastern Shore.

Those proposals would add hundreds of thousands of voters from Anne Arundel County, home of Annapolis, in with voters from the less populous counties on the Eastern Shore. The two halves of the district would be connected only by the Bay Bridge, the four-mile span that crosses the Chesapeake...

“The issue of going to all-Democratic representation in the Congress in a state where we’ve got one-third of the voters who are in fact Republicans, I don’t know how you sell something like that,” Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D) said on WBAL on Wednesday. “I think that’s an overreach. For me, that’s a bridge too far.”

None of the four Democratic members of the Legislative Redistricting Advisory Committee returned requests for comment. The other two versions would largely keep Harris’s district intact.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: andyharris; annapolis; annearundelcounty; defundthepolice; demagogicparty; gerrymander; gerrymandering; hellhole; maryland; reidwilson; thehill; theshill
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Wow - Kweisi is now the moderate ..
1 posted on 11/19/2021 6:59:03 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Its all theater

even if he believes it, hes just a democrat prop

they can point to him and say we had some on our side who didn’t go along with it

and they’ll do it anyways


2 posted on 11/19/2021 7:06:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 11th_VA

They call it redistricting. They really mean gerrymandering.


3 posted on 11/19/2021 7:06:58 PM PST by HollyB
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To: 11th_VA

if anyone really believes any democrat is worried about republican representation for republican citizens

you are not living in 2021 America


4 posted on 11/19/2021 7:07:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 11th_VA

Scumbags.


5 posted on 11/19/2021 7:09:08 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: 11th_VA

I like the map that gives 2 GOP[e] Districts:

Eastern Shore + eastern Border with Pa and then Western Maryland


6 posted on 11/19/2021 7:10:22 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: 11th_VA

The communists need to absorb the eastern shore because that’s where all the chicken comes from...


7 posted on 11/19/2021 7:12:20 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: 11th_VA

the hand of obammy / holder


8 posted on 11/19/2021 7:12:55 PM PST by sheehan (TRUMP WON.)
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To: 11th_VA

They should do it. Then it would send a message to MAGA voters in the state. Maybe it’s time to relocate to greener pastures (Florida).


9 posted on 11/19/2021 7:13:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: 11th_VA

Hogan is calling in an independent commission to draw up a map.

I found this page which offers Some more info. (Not familiar with the page)

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/maryland/


10 posted on 11/19/2021 7:16:04 PM PST by HollyB
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To: 11th_VA

Andy Harris is one of the best congressmen around. He spends 60-90 minutes a week on local talk radio talking to hosts and citizens. That’s on one station.

I’ve heard him on others too.

The scum democrats want to get rid of the line competent member from Maryland. That’s typical.


11 posted on 11/19/2021 7:19:56 PM PST by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sounds like a good idea.


12 posted on 11/19/2021 7:21:45 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: 11th_VA
The Massachusetts state legislature...House and Senate...is 95% Rat and has been for many years. They've succeeded in making maps creating a completely Rat delegation.
13 posted on 11/19/2021 7:25:39 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: 11th_VA

Trying to do things like this can backfire in a wave election by making their other districts less blue.


14 posted on 11/19/2021 7:52:52 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

MD freak state ping.


15 posted on 11/19/2021 7:57:31 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman; Viking2002

No - MD ping.


16 posted on 11/19/2021 8:36:53 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Paladin2

It was only 15 years ago that we had that. Took away our Roscoe Bartlett in Western MD by TYING IT IN WITH EVIL MONTY COUNTY!

Yes, we used to have 2 of 6 Reps Republican!


17 posted on 11/19/2021 8:38:32 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: lightman; Viking2002
This kind of thing makes me glad I moved to Florida. And also . . .

Viking2002 can ping the list if he wants.

18 posted on 11/19/2021 8:41:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

My old state used to have FOUR Republicans back in 2000.


19 posted on 11/19/2021 8:41:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: 11th_VA

Certainly the one Republican is on the endangered species list and protected by law from being targeted? Imagine if he was a snail darter.


20 posted on 11/19/2021 8:41:42 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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