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Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts) Sat Mar 25, 2017, 06:46 PM Mar 2017

117 seats in state legislative districts were responsible for the KGOP taking the house.

Last edited Sat Mar 25, 2017, 07:54 PM - Edit history (1)

EDIT: that's 117 throughout the entire country, to clear that up...............

David Daley, author of Ratf***ed, is on smerconish right now, discussing how Rove, in 2010, laid out the plan for these districts

getting those state leg. seats made it possible to gerrymander a HUNDRED NINETY house seats, making the KGOP "miracle" possible

here's a thread from a year ago regarding this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016160773

see article and hear interview>>>>

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117 seats in state legislative districts were responsible for the KGOP taking the house. (Original Post) Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 OP

Any chance Democrats get, need to put districting into independent permanent commissions. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #1

couldn't agree more. what's sad, in a way, is that the author Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #2

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Any chance Democrats get, need to put districting into independent permanent commissions.

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Original post)

Sat Mar 25, 2017, 07:48 PM

Mar 2017

Gerrymandering must be stopped once and for all.

It needs to similarly be a priority for the Democratic Party.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

2. couldn't agree more. what's sad, in a way, is that the author

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 25, 2017, 07:53 PM

Mar 2017

agreed with smerconish when he said that the dems could've done the same thing before the KGOP did, but they didn't realize it/have the nerve to do it

more like they didn't have the Koch Brothers/deVos/Bradley/Olin/Mercer kind of money that brought about this crippling blow (final blow?) to free elections

and then came ALEC.......

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