NY’s Democratic leaders flip voters the redistricting bird

Democrats in command of State Legislative are poised to redistrict Republicans into oblivion.
Hans Pennink

Blatantly defying the voters’ will, the Legislature’s Democratic majorities have seized management of redistricting to allow them to gerrymander their very own districts in addition to New York’s Home seats.

Voters in 2014 handed a constitutional modification handing redistricting to a bipartisan fee, and simply final November, they defeated a Democratic proposal to take away the requirement that new district maps should obtain some Republican assist.

So the Legislature’s leaders rigged the fee to fail by naming members who wouldn’t compromise, then passing a regulation that permit them take over when that failure occurred.

Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Chief Andrea Stewart-Cousins declare it’s their obligation to supply “truthful maps” that their chambers will approve subsequent week. Truthful? Phrase has already leaked that they’re gunning for Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, redrawing her district to enhance Democratic challengers.

Anticipate them to additionally lock in their very own majorities, significantly within the state Senate. The one barrier is court docket evaluation, which may reject their plan for varied causes.

Staten Island’s Rep. Nicole Malliotakis will seemingly be harm by gerrymandering.

AP Picture/Andrew Harnik

But when this goes forward, the one strategy to stop one-party rule of the Empire State will likely be to elect a Republican governor, since they will’t gerrymander the state’s borders.

Humorous: All of the Democratic noise in Washington over a “conflict on democracy” in some way ignored the continued effort to nullify elections and Republican voting rights in New York.