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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Mon Sep 18, 2017, 12:57 PM Sep 2017

Imagine Rs winning on a level playing field; no gerrymandering; no voter suppression tactics;

Imagine Rs winning on a level playing field; no gerrymandering; no voter suppression tactics; no Russians; no State Governors rigging machines...neither can I. Especially here in Wisconsin.

In briefs filed in the Wisconsin case, McCain, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) argue that gerrymandering is effectively killing public trust in the federal government by making it impossible for Congress to compromise and find solutions to national problems.

Another alarm about gerrymandering has been sounded by Schwarzenegger. The Republican has started an online funding campaign to fight partisan packing of congressional districts.

Picking up on the title of one of his movies, Schwarzenegger calls the effort “Terminate Gerrymandering.”

http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/351115-juan-williams-momentum-builds-against-gerrymandering?rnd=1505700351

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Imagine Rs winning on a level playing field; no gerrymandering; no voter suppression tactics; (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Sep 2017 OP

I'm surprised any republicans would push this. CrispyQ Sep 2017 #1

Kasich is running in 2020. He's positioning himself as a moderate. haele Sep 2017 #2

Kasich is as much of a pig as our Scott Walker jodymarie aimee Sep 2017 #3

I can't believe how much I'm liking Schwarzenegger lately. Downtown Hound Sep 2017 #4

are you including a fair media & even funding as well? pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #5

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)

1. I'm surprised any republicans would push this.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 01:14 PM

Sep 2017

Good for them.

haele

(12,659 posts)

2. Kasich is running in 2020. He's positioning himself as a moderate.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 01:33 PM

Sep 2017

He'll revert to his normal Koch-creature persona as soon as he gets what he wants.

Schwarzenegger is probably reacting to the Democratic Majority in California and wants more Republicans in seats here.
Which is rather a losing proposition since the last California re-districting was by a non-partisan committee - not by the state legislature. Until those "middle class" Red-staters again start moving in to leech off our relatively stable economy because "pro-business first" and the immoral Calvinst bottom-line budgeting tanked their state economies.

Haele