{"id":1028046,"date":"2021-11-18T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028046"},"modified":"2021-11-18T15:28:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:28:40","slug":"its-racially-gerrymandered-long-time-democrat-blames-new-district-map-for-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-racially-gerrymandered-long-time-democrat-blames-new-district-map-for-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Racially Gerrymandered\u2019: Long-Time Democrat Blames New District Map For Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-racially-gerrymandered-long-time-democrat-blames-new-district-map-for-retirement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028046&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Citing his state\u2019s recently-finalized district map, Democratic North Carolina Rep. G.K. Butterfield announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the 117th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe map that was recently enacted by the legislature is a partisan map,\u201d he said in a video posted to YouTube. \u201cIt\u2019s racially gerrymandered. It will disadvantage African American communities all across the First Congressional District. I am disappointed, terribly disappointed with the Republican majority legislature for again gerrymandering our state\u2019s congressional districts and putting their party politics over the best interests of North Carolinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the newly-drawn map, Butterfield said, he was forced to \u201cmake the difficult decision that [he] will not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Congressman Butterfield Announces His Retirement\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KwYqQIi6b8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Butterfield expressed hope that the newly-drawn maps would be struck down by a court as a violation of the Voting Rights Act. In 2018, a state court struck down the maps drawn by the North Carolina legislature after the 2010 census.<\/p>\n<p>The newest map, passed in early November, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/04\/north-carolina-adopts-new-congressional-map-that-bolsters-republicans\/\">creates<\/a> 10 safe Republican seats, three safe Democratic seats, and one toss-up district. The new First District has a Cook Partisan Voter Index of Democrat +1. Butterfield\u2019s old <a href=\"https:\/\/cookpolitical.com\/pvi-map-and-district-list\">district<\/a> was Democrat +17. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/27\/behind-scenes-fight-2022-election-gerrymandering-maryland\/\">(RELATED: An Inside Look At The Behind The Scenes Fight To Set The 2022 Election)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a result of the newly-drawn map and the strong performances of Republican candidates in early November elections, the National Republican Congressional Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/house-gop-campaign-arm-adds-13-democratic-seats-target-list\/\">added<\/a> Butterfield to its list of targeted Democratic incumbents for the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>First elected to his Elizabeth City-centered district in a 2004 special election, Butterfield served as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus from 2015-2017. Before entering Congress, he <a href=\"https:\/\/butterfield.house.gov\/about\/biography\">served<\/a> as a civil rights attorney and state Supreme Court judge.<\/p>\n<p>Butterfield is the <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgallery.house.gov\/member-data\/casualty-list\">15th<\/a> House Democrat to announce his retirement this cycle, and the second from North Carolina. Democratic North Carolina Rep. David Price <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/18\/david-price-democrat-north-carolina-retires\/\">announced<\/a> in October that he would leave Congress after the current term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud of my work in Congress on behalf of my constituents,\u201d Butterfield added. \u201cAnd I know that my life\u2019s work of fighting for greater fairness and equity will not cease, even after the close of the 117th Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing his state\u2019s recently-finalized district map, Democratic North Carolina Rep. G.K. Butterfield announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the 117th Congress.\u201cThe map that was recently enacted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}