By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--July 7, 2012
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Voters First claims that by having non-elected individuals draw the lines, we’ll end up with better districts and less gerrymandering to create Republican- or Democrat-leaning ones. But the predominance of Democrats in larger cities and Republicans in rural areas, combined with the laws on discrimination and voting, make drawing districts extremely difficult to begin with and there is no guarantee that any other group will do any better than what we already have. They say they want “politically balanced” districts – not “safe districts,” but also want to keep communities together inside a district. There is no way to draw a district that includes the city of Toledo or the city of Cleveland and not end up with a ‘safe’ district for a Democrat. Their goal of keeping the ‘community’ (city) together is incompatible with a “politically balanced” district.As Thurber so aptly sums it up…
I’d rather have the elected representatives do this than rely upon a group of people I, as a voter, have no control over. This is the opposite of ‘voters first.’But that is exactly what these leftists want. They want a “board” that answers to the left, that will draw districts that gives the left a leg up in power, and that conservatives and Republicans have no legal way to influence. Worse, these leftists want to take the power to affect this board away from the people Like Thurber said, that isn’t democracy. But it IS leftism. Liberals, Democrats and leftists hate democracy with a passion. They always have.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.