[Magdalen] Gerrymandering was Canada's election

[Jay Weigel]

This may come from a pro-Democratic source, but the quotes are real and
painfully honest.
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/virginia-republicans-admit-they-rigged-the-2012-2014-elections-by-gerrymandering-districts-7/

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 10/20/15 10:10 AM, Jay Weigel 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.
>>
>
> Some of it is gerrymandering.  But the reason for the numbers instead of
> place-names is so that places can be redistricted, made "frequently"
> necessary by population shift.  The scare-quotes around "frequently" is for
> the long-term.  During my life, living in the same place for most of it, in
> Kansas, I've lived in at least three different congressional district
> numbers.  Never moved out of Shawnee Township, Cherokee County, except for
> three or four years when I was married and we were going to different
> colleges and frequently moving.  But I'm 71 years old, and my experience in
> politics only covers about 50 years.
>
> I think Scott was speaking for the whole US, rather carelessly, when
> basically he was talking about Chicago, and other high-population-density
> machine-politics areas.
>
> I ain't Urban!
>
> I do know that Chicago is notorious for the gerrymandering, with the
> machine politics, but the Pendergast machine never got that powerful in
> rural Kansas.  Take a look at the nice neat map at
> http://www.unityparty.us/kansas-senators-representatives.htm
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>