Proposal, delayed past Jan. 30 target, goes further than the 9–2 approach Gov. Abigail Spanberger has supported as lawmakers press ahead despite court fight.
After weeks of buildup and a missed self-imposed Jan. 30 deadline, Virginia Democrats on Thursday evening finally released their long-awaited revised congressional map, proposing an aggressive 10–1 configuration that would tilt 10 of the state’s 11 U.S. House districts toward their party.
Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, argued the proposal is necessary to counter what Democrats describe as a coordinated national strategy driven by Donald Trump.
“Look, Donald Trump knows he’s going to lose the midterms. He knows it,” Lucas said Thursday. “That’s why he started this mess in the first place. … These are not ordinary times and Virginia will not sit on the sidelines while it happens.”
Left-leaning states engaging in gerrymandering is nothing to the onslaught of voter suppression legislation enacted in right-leaning states, in addition to their own gerrymandering efforts.
Unless those on the right are willing to support national legislation banning it everywhere, while also ensuring widespread ballot access, any complaints to these measures are pure hypocrisy.
I’m fairly certain the demand for purity is almost entirely just unknowingly repeated propaganda points
People seem to have a difficult time understanding how to fight a tragedy of the commons