Pennsylvania

JPZenger

(6,819 posts) Wed Jul 24, 2013, 04:22 PM Jul 2013

Graphic shows how Republican gerrymandering in PA has interfered with your right to be heard in DC

Here's the infamous Donald Duck kicking Goofy congressional district in eastern PA. Unfortunately, there were no legal standards for the redistricting in PA. That means that it was almost impossible for the Democrats to go to court to challenge any of these districts.

(There were a few legal standards that allowed a challenge of state house and senate district boundaries).

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Graphic shows how Republican gerrymandering in PA has interfered with your right to be heard in DC (Original Post) JPZenger Jul 2013 OP

That 2nd photo Cirque du So-What Jul 2013 #1

I lost my Democratic US Rep for a gop rep life long demo Jul 2013 #2

We lost Frank Mascara (may he RIP) for Tim Murphy. femmocrat Jul 2013 #3

Yep. blue neen Jul 2013 #4

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)

1. That 2nd photo

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Wed Jul 24, 2013, 05:56 PM

Jul 2013

isn't a district. It's a Rorschach test - literally. If you can look at that and still insist that nothing is wrong with such blatant gerrymandering, you might be a wingnut.

life long demo

(1,113 posts)

2. I lost my Democratic US Rep for a gop rep

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Wed Jul 24, 2013, 06:07 PM

Jul 2013

because of gerrymandering. Lost Allyson Schwartz for Mike Fitzpatrick. UGH!

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

3. We lost Frank Mascara (may he RIP) for Tim Murphy.

Reply to life long demo (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 24, 2013, 06:34 PM

Jul 2013

They gerrymandered all those old democratic steel towns along the Mon into a toney republican Pittsburgh suburb.

blue neen

(12,327 posts)

4. Yep.

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 24, 2013, 11:05 PM

Jul 2013

That set up a race between Mascara and John Murtha for District 12 after the 2000 census gerrymandering.

This time they took District 12, tailor gerrymandered it for Keith Rothfus. Rothfus then finally moved his family into the district and ran against Democrat Mark Critz, who had taken Murtha's place.

Now, District 12 runs the whole way from Cambria County to the Ohio border. It's ridiculous, not to mention the District is now represented by a hardline teabagger named Rothfus.

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