[Magdalen] Gerrymandering was Canada's election

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Kate Conant

>http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2010/11/11/the-top-ten-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts-in-the-united-states/

The gerrymandered district in which we lived in Brooklyn for ten years extended 
all the way to the upper West Side of Manhattan, wit.h some fairly long 
stretched between the West Side Highway in Manhattan and the Hudson River, and 
ditto along the Brooklyn Waterfront, and then including a bit of Sunset Park 
(the Asian section, not the Hispanic Section) extending one block into Bay 
Ridge. The border was between our building at 68th and Shore and 69th and Shore 
our next door neighbors  My Congressman was Jerry Nadler and as a result, if I 
mentioned that he was my Congressman, people would assume I must live on the 
"ultra-liberal upper West Side of Manhattan."

When we first moved there, of course, we were part of that Staten Island 
Republican District, represented by Vito Fossella (R-C) who was so pro family he 
had one on Staten Island and another in Alexandria Virginia. He was outed after 
being arrested fro drunk driving and claiming he was on his way home to his 
family (in Alexandria, not the one in Staten Island).

after the 2010 census, we were back in Republican Staten Island again --  
represented by Michael Grimm (R-C-I) who was best known for threatening to throw 
a reporter off the balcony as the capital, and later fore being convicted for 
corruption and not paying his employees withholding.

THE Staten Island GOP replaced him the Dan Donovan in a special election. 
Donovan, as Staten Island D.A. engineered the acquittal of all charges against 
officers in the chokehold murder of Eric Garner.

Jim Guthrie





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humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 20/10/2015 20:12, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
>> Redistricting is supposed to happen every ten years after the census. It
>> is not the random occurrence Sibyl implies.
>>
>> The average number of constituents  in a district is  710,767. But
>> Montana with one Congressional District has 994,916.  Rhode Island, OTOH
>> has 526,283. That's because Congress has limited itself to 435 members, but
>> the districting is within a state only. It's also the reason that the
>> number of Congress members in a state with a stagnant economy (like Kansas)
>> tend to lose members every ten years.
>>
>> California, with a vibrant and growing economy is up to  53
>> Representatives. - 12% of the entire House.
>>
>
> and I understand it has taken redistricting out of the hands of the
> legislature and passed that responsibility to a non-partisan commission.
>
> Roger
>