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   From: zinn@reno.us   
      
   New York Democrats only have themselves to blame for the redistricting   
   debacle that cost Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Mondaire Jones their seats in   
   Congress.   
      
   The gerrymandering power grab orchestrated by state Sen. Michael Gianaris   
   (D-Queens) sought to secure Democrats 22 House seats in New York, leaving   
   Republicans only four.   
      
   Gerrymanders effectively disenfranchise the voters by stacking districts   
   so heavily in favor of one party or the other that minority-party members   
   (and independents) have no voice.   
      
   But Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the redistricting plan into law anyway —   
   because, as she told The New York Times, she’s a “loyal Biden Democrat”   
   who wanted to help her party. And no matter that it plainly defied the   
   state Constitution as amended by New York’s voters, which requires a truly   
   bipartisan redistricting process.   
      
   The power grab backfired massively in April when a state court (soon   
   backed up New York’s highest court) tossed that plan as a blatant   
   violation of the ban on partisan gerrymandering in New York’s   
   Constitution.   
      
   A new map drawn by a court-appointed special master drew fair, competitive   
   districts — without protecting incumbents trying to keep their seats and   
   now yielding Maloney’s and Jones’ involuntary retirements.   
      
   It’s rough justice for the Democratic Party in New York, but the actual   
   authors of the effort to defy the law and the voters’ will so far have   
   paid no price.   
      
   Count it as one more reason to vote against Hochul this November: She   
   refuses to stand in the way of the machinations of the Legislature’s   
   Democratic power-brokers even when New Yorkers’ voting rights are at   
   stake.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2022/08/25/ny-democrats-only-have-themselves-to-blame-   
   for-losing-reps-carolyn-maloney-mondaire-jones/   
      
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