Residents of Anne Arundel County begged to have their county returned to one congressional district or, at most, divided between two.
The witnesses said it was a disaster when congressional boundaries were redrawn following the 1980 U.S. Census. That's when the county went from having a resident member of Congress to being divided among four districts.
Some witnesses said it is especially important for the county to have its...
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Toles says it all... - 2011-09-01 11:32:12
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Fairy goose, Fairy gander,
The Legendary Gerrymander.
But you can bet
You've seen nothing yet:
The districts of the Marylander.
One would have to wear the fool's cap to even consider that the Annapolis churls that thievish passed 'Dream Act' for illegals would be less duplicitous in performing the redistricting process.
These guy are two-faced. Listening and reading about proper representation is all that they are going to do. Nothing more than that.
When time comes to vote for legislative boundaries they will fulminate, FUBAR, and foam throwing gibe and accusations across the chamber and piece meal AACo again - typical B'hoy stuff.
These elected ones protect their own. Why does anyone wonder how this stays a one-party state.
Redistricting here is part of the political process. If you want it to be viable, fair and representative, get angry enough to demand an independent judicial commission to decide this ten-year ordeal.
Otherwise, suck your thumbs, wail and give forth streams tears of regret at a process that you have allowed to get out-of-hand.
All these hearings, all these inputs are a waste of time.
If you really want to change this low mental wattage system start buy changing the olde guard in Annapolis towne.
Vote the current bums out and keep doing so until Maryland gets true volunteer citizen government; not professional political hacks that steal votes in their loony ideas of redistricting.
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Reunite AACo - 2011-08-31 20:26:09
Slivering AACo among 4 Congressional districts is NUTS -- especially as none of these 'Representatives' lives here! According to the Census Bureau Website (Census.gov), AACo numbers 512,209 folks. MD has 8 Congressional seats, & I don't think we gained or lost any as a result of the 2010 Census. MD's population is 5,699,478, so each House seat should represent about 712,435 folks. AACo's population is 73% of that number, so we should be grouped together and some adjacent county slivered to add the necessary 200,000 residents to make up a House seat.
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