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Partisan actors are drawing

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 01:23:51 +0000

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Partisan actors are drawing gerrymandered maps right now.

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— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) January 25, 2022

Although Jews make up 2

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:57:45 +0000

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Although Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, nearly 7 percent of the new Congress is Jewish, with 37 Jews among the total of 535 lawmakers. In the Senate, the 9 Jewish members comprise 9 percent of that body; 28 Jews comprise 5 percent of the House. The record was the 1993 Congress, which included 51 Jews — nearly 10 percent of the total.

All of the Jews in the Senate are Democrats, as are all but two in the House. The Republican exceptions are Reps. Lee Zeldin and David Kustoff, from New York and Tennessee, respectively. They are the only non-Christian Republicans in the Congress, according to a report by Pew.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-members-of-the-116th-congress

The 1st Jewish member was elected in 1844, so ~180 years ago.

Levin began gaining notoriety in Philadelphia in the later 1830's for his public crusades on the evils of alcohol and against Catholic political power. In 1843, Levin founded the American Republic Party (later called the Native American Party) and shortly in 1844 he ran for Congress and was elected. His party's platform called for extending the period of naturalization to twenty-one years; election of only native born Americans to all offices; and, rejection of foreign interference in all institutions, social, religious and political.

Yglesias angry, admits it's

artappraiser — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:49:38 +0000

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Yglesias angry, admits it's true but still wants to make sure the GOP gets the blame:

This drives me crazy:

— There was a push to get SCOTUS to strike down gerrymanders and the conservative justices said no

— Then there was a push in congress to ban gerrymanders and Republicans said no

Nobody is free of hypocrisy here but the right can just say yes. https://t.co/nS3RBiXPqd
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 31, 2022

Me, I just want to know why the NY Democratic party does it so cluelessly in like, NYC. As Chester points out, it's some kinda "Jewish district" as if that could ensure a Jewish House member always results? Or what? Nonsense for nothing! Twisted districts based on imaginary tribes that don't exist! Guess it ends up all right because it ends up diverse politics BUT THAT'S NOT THE INTENT! So: clueless nonsense

comments from his Jan. 5

artappraiser — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:45:48 +0000

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comments from his Jan. 5 thread, subtweeted above

As a Jew, I really resent that we still have the NY House map gerrymander a "Jewish district" for Jerry Nadler.

It's not 1939. We're no longer an oppressed minority group - especially not in New York.

It comes across as incredibly retrograde and patronizing.
— Chester A. Arthur (@ZacAKAMadu) January 4, 2022

Moreover the cultural geography of NY-10 is absurd.

The Ultra-Orthodox community in South Brooklyn has almost nothing at all in common with the mostly liberal Reform Jews in UWS - such that it merits having one single Congressman.

We disagree on _everything_.
— Chester A. Arthur (@ZacAKAMadu) January 4, 2022

note he self-describes as

Amateur New York historian. If it was 1881 I'd be a Garfield-Arthur Reconstructionist, but 140 years later that would make me a normcore liberal Democrat. Harlem, NY