[Magdalen] Gerrymandering was Canada's election

[Charles Wohlers]

Well, we in Vermont don't have to worry about Congressional gerrymandering 
as we only have one person in the House of Representatives. My Congressional 
district id the whole state of Vermont

OTOH, I was, once upon a time, in Barney Frank's district in Massachusetts. 
At one time his district was basically in two parts - one based in Newton, 
where he lived, and the other in heavily-Democratic Fall River. These two 
parts were joined by a thin strip of land which had no roads - that is, one 
couldn't go from one part of his district to the other without going outside 
of it.

However, after the last redistricting the Legislature actually created 
districts with little or no gerrymandering, possibly enabling the 
Republicans to get a Congresscritter from Massachusetts, which they hadn't 
done for quite a few years. And, even so, they haven't been able to do 
since.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Knitter
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:26 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Gerrymandering was Canada's election

Within Chicago, our wards were redrawn recently and we ended up in a newly 
rectangular and contiguous ward coterminous with our neighborhood Edgewater, 
represented by an alderman I like. We had been in a spider's leg of a ward 
centered far southwest of us, with the alderman who is constantly chained to 
the mayor and never opposes him. So sometimes redistributing goes well! At 
least for us it did.

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> On Oct 20, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sibyl, if you don't think it's gerrymandering, you ain't seen
> Virginia.....especially the Virginia 2nd. The whole thing has been ordered
> redrawn.