teen persuasion
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Post by teen persuasion on Apr 12, 2023 22:21:20 GMT -5
Can any one person effectively represent a 12 county area spanning at least 4 of the ten regions in NYS? She went district shopping when redistricting eliminated her previous Syracuse district, so hopped into running for the rural snake that mine morphed into. All politics are local - she's still representing "her" local CNY area. I haven't heard anything about her or from her since she was elected and campaign ads disappeared. My local area is WNY, but I can't vote for the WNY politicians I know and hear about daily in my local news, from the district on the other half of my county even! THAT's why I'd prefer to be a part of a district centered in my region. I am not sure about "region" in New York. Out here in the wild west, things are generally about urban and rural interests. Districts which cover large geographic areas are united by concerns that are different than small geographic area districts with dense populations. NYS is a weird state - there's Downstate, which is lots of tiny geographic area districts due to the population density in NYC. And then there's Upstate, which is everything else - a handful of cities ringed by suburbs and more-or-less rural everywhere else. NYC population is near 9 million, second largest city Buffalo is 275k. ![](https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/yikes.png) So even the "urban" areas in Upstate have more in common with their surrounding 'burbs/rural areas than with Downstate. Thus, we think in terms of our local region, usually centered on a city or 2: WNY (Buffalo), Finger Lakes (Rochester), CNY (Syracuse), North County (Watertown), Capital (Albany) Mohawk Valley (Schenectady), etc. Look at tallguy's link, at NY's congressional districts and toggle between the old and new maps. Hover over sections to see the number. Old map 27th (northwestern corner, red) - my district, old map 22nd (red section in the middle right) was Tenney's district. New map - 24th is my new district, and Tenney is the rep.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 13, 2023 12:05:58 GMT -5
This is a fascinating site for anyone truly interested in Congressional districts and redistricting. You can look state-by-state at the size, layout, racial makeup, and partisan lean of each district in the country, as well as the comparison between the old and new maps. I have to laugh particularly at the states where one or two sparsely-populated rural districts cover the vast majority of the land area, while urban districts are minuscule by comparison. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/ this (below) is also interesting. for those of you unfamiliar with this highly undemocratic Republican program, you should be. it probably affects half of the people on this board. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAPhere is the critique of this illustrious program: REDMAP has been criticized for its efforts to gerrymander districts.[2][7] Critics have noted that the Republican Party won a 33-seat majority in the House of Representatives despite its candidates collectively receiving 1.4 million fewer votes than Democratic candidates.[7] REDMAP has also been criticized for targeting people of color, particularly African Americans. David Daley, author of the 2016 book Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, stated that the effects of REDMAP constituted a "wholesale political resegregation along both sides of the Mason-Dixon line" and that redistricting by Republican legislatures redrew maps to "pack as many Black and Democratic voters into as few districts as possible".[7] Reverend William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, has likewise asserted that Republicans "cracked, stacked, packed, and bleached Black voters".[7] In response to this, Black political leaders made deals with Republicans in states like Missouri, North Carolina, and Georgia to preserve Black representation in Congress while giving Republicans more safe seats. In addition, some states are required by law to have majority-minority congressional districts due to the Voting Rights Act.[15]
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Post by Tennesseer on May 1, 2023 9:58:40 GMT -5
Zooey Zephyr embodies the GOP’s war on free speechShe's Montana's first transgender state legislator. Now, she's the target of Republican lawmakers who want to silence her. MAGA Republicans love the word “decorum" lately. Mind you, this is the same Republican Party that publicly declared the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the events that led to it “legitimate political discourse.” That party is now clutching its collective pearls in fake outrage over citizens in its own states and legislators daring to object to its extreme politics. It happened in Georgia when a Democratic state legislator objected to the governor signing — in secret, in front of a plantation painting — onerous anti-voter legislation. It happened in Arkansas, where a Republican state legislator silenced students who came to object to a disastrous education bill. And most recently, it happened in Tennessee where Republicans expelled two Black Democratic state legislators for breach of “decorum” on the state's House floor because they demanded action on guns — only to be accused of inciting “riots or violence." Most Americans would consider those attempts to silence dissent undemocratic and a political disaster — except in Montana where House Republicans just punished Missoula Democrat Zooey Zephyr. The House supermajority voted to banish her from the House floor for the rest of the 2023 session, which is only about a week. She will still be allowed to vote remotely. Rest of article here: Zooey Zephyr embodies the GOP’s war on free speech
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Post by djAdvocate on May 1, 2023 14:12:15 GMT -5
Orwellian, aren't they?
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Post by happyhoix on May 3, 2023 7:03:54 GMT -5
You’ll be glad to know that the GOP is working hard to defeat that Godless terror, wokeness.
Not only has there been the backlash against Bud for having a trans person drink a Bud in public, and M&Ms for getting rid of the sexy green one and replacing her with a lesbian in tennis shoes - now Lego is on their hit list for having diverse Lego figures- including one with Down’s syndrome and a female construction worker.
Sure, the GOP may be about to run the world into an economic train wreck by refusing to do something the eagerly did when Trump was president - 3 times during his four years, and not a peep about his tax windfall for the rich - but isn’t it more important to shame toy makers for making a Lego figure who uses a wheelchair?😡
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Post by Opti on May 5, 2023 9:23:48 GMT -5
You’ll be glad to know that the GOP is working hard to defeat that Godless terror, wokeness. Not only has there been the backlash against Bud for having a trans person drink a Bud in public, and M&Ms for getting rid of the sexy green one and replacing her with a lesbian in tennis shoes - now Lego is on their hit list for having diverse Lego figures- including one with Down’s syndrome and a female construction worker. Sure, the GOP may be about to run the world into an economic train wreck by refusing to do something the eagerly did when Trump was president - 3 times during his four years, and not a peep about his tax windfall for the rich - but isn’t it more important to shame toy makers for making a Lego figure who uses a wheelchair?😡 They are purely bread and circuses now. The GOP is just into faux news bullshittery. Wokeness is one of the dumbest things they've decided to tilt against. In related news, Joan Baez was on Colbert or Seth Meyers last night. She apparently has a viral moment with the Tennesse 3 (do not know who they are, I am thinking singers?) w/ one of them singing with her in an airport. The clip was great, and she looked pretty good. Maybe the GOP can go ass over teakettle on the clip. She's an older white woman singing with a young black man in an airport! OM ![](https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/idunno.gif) She just published a book of pictures and captions. She draws the pictures upside down.
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Post by Opti on May 5, 2023 9:25:12 GMT -5
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Post by tbop77 on May 15, 2023 10:03:03 GMT -5
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Post by tallguy on May 15, 2023 11:26:33 GMT -5
That was rhetorical, I hope?
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