Thanks to Erik Corbett’s timely reminder, I remembered to attend the local hearing of the legislature’s redistricting committee. As a Democratic knight-errant, Erik has been fulminating against gerrymandering ever since he arrived in Conway, a couple of years ago, and for the 2020 town meeting he submitted a petition for a warrant article supporting an “independent redistricting commission.” It sounded good in principle, so it attracted broad support, but the state constitution requires that the legislature draw all election maps.
Aside from that constitutional conflict, the majority party would inevitably find ways to dominate an “independent” commission through more surreptitious influence. New York’s new governor had not held office many hours before she admitted, with surprising candor, that she means to help Democrats control her state’s new “independent” commission.
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