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A Republican lawmaker from Kansas has a pretty absurd argument against the redistricting of her neighborhood, she doesn't want her "primarily Caucasian" district to become more diverse. Huffington Post reports:
A Kansas state lawmaker told colleagues Wednesday that she opposed a proposed redistricting map because it would put her "primarily Caucasian" neighborhood in a more diverse district.
Kansas Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R-Wichita), who is seeking a state Senate seat, said the map would improperly combine the north Wichita area where she lives with a neighboring district that includes more Democrats and minorities.
"Gerrymandering an area of Wichita, where primarily Caucasian voters reside, in homes that are upwards of $800,000 and more in price, violates committee rules and federal redistricting guidelines," Landwehr wrote in testimony to the state redistricting committee, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. "Any map that draws my home into Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau's district is a violation of two communities' interest."
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/kansas-lawmaker-dont-make-my-primarily-caucasian-district-more-diverse.php
Hopefully no one is still wondering what's the matter with Kansas.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)I lived in Western Missouri for many years but this one takes the cake, right back to the 1950's or more.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)So it will be in the same district as the farmers in western KS.
But THAT'S not a problem for these GOP morans.
sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)It is wrong to disenfranchise people in $800,000 homes by putting them into a district with a bunch of canaille. They could then end up "represented" by somebody who would vote to make the tax system more progressive, and it's that kind of tyranny that Jefferson, Washington and Franken (not to mention merh) got on the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Mayflower to escape.