MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Khorri Atkinson @ Axios.com, 6 hrs. ago
Ohio lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bipartisan plan to curtail gerrymandering by changing how congressional district lines are drawn.
Why it matters: The proposed constitutional amendment will be placed before voters in May as a ballot initiative. If passed, it would change the current law that gives the state's Republican-controlled legislature the authority to draw and approve legislative maps. It would go into effect for the next redistricting process in 2021 [.....]
Gov. John Kasich (R), who has been calling for reform, lauded the bipartisan compromise, as well as Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D), who represents Ohio's most infamously gerrymandered district, referred to as the "snake by the lake." [....]
Comments
Good news. Like Pennsylvania, Ohio's been one of the problem states since the Reagan era. Pity it can't happen sooner. By the time they get to it, could be a whole different state and country, people moving and changing attitudes could make it sort of moot. Still good news to give the people the power to change the law.
Arnold's still on it:
Schwarzenegger: Gerrymandering 'one of the biggest scams' pulled on the American people
@ TheHill.com - 02/06/18 10:30 PM EST
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 4:09am
Salon article on backdrop
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:50am
Eric Holder, with Obama's support, leads Democrats to war on gerrymandering
by BENJY SARLIN @ NBCNews.com, Feb. 7
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:38pm