Georgia Republican brushes aside Dems' redistricting worries

Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston (R) said it was "premature" for state Democrats to complain about the redistricting process and warned the GOP could be more heavy handed when redrawing the boundaries.

Georgia Democratic lawmakers have cried foul over the state Republicans shifting responsibility for the details of redistricting from the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government, which is nonpartisan, to a Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office that will be advised by a top Republican lawyer.

Georgia has gained a congressional district as a result of population growth, which will complicate the process.

But Kingston said there was no plan to dramatically tilt the boundaries in his party's favor and noted that Democrats didn't use a soft touch when Gov. Roy Barnes (D) was in power after the last Census in 2000.

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meetings to plan the take over. In WI all of a sudden we have a republican lawyer deciding the redistricting too. In fact their new head of RNC is one of the lawyers with the firm doing ours, Rence Priebus. Tell me all this isn't coordinated.

They could make the districts all the same size and shape and it wouldn't make any difference. Outside of Atlanta, Athens and Savannah, it's all dark blood red.