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.
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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
They call it redistricting. They really mean gerrymandering.
if anyone really believes any democrat is worried about republican representation for republican citizens
you are not living in 2021 America
Scumbags.
I like the map that gives 2 GOP[e] Districts:
Eastern Shore + eastern Border with Pa and then Western Maryland
The communists need to absorb the eastern shore because that’s where all the chicken comes from...
the hand of obammy / holder
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).
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/
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.
Sounds like a good idea.
Trying to do things like this can backfire in a wave election by making their other districts less blue.
MD freak state ping.
No - MD ping.
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!
Viking2002 can ping the list if he wants.
My old state used to have FOUR Republicans back in 2000.
Certainly the one Republican is on the endangered species list and protected by law from being targeted? Imagine if he was a snail darter.
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