{"id":1032766,"date":"2021-11-19T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T20:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1032766"},"modified":"2021-11-19T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T20:44:42","slug":"maryland-dems-slammed-for-partisan-redistricting-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-dems-slammed-for-partisan-redistricting-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Dems Slammed for Partisan Redistricting Effort"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fmaryland-dems-slammed-for-partisan-redistricting-effort%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=1032766&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 readability=\"27.90977443609\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Commission proposed maps that could oust state&#8217;s lone Republican<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland_since_2013-736x431-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland_since_2013-e1628884500155.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland_since_2013-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland_since_2013-1024x599.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland_since_2013-768x450.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMaryland&#8217;s gerrymandered congressional districts \/ Wikimedia Commons\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 November 19, 2021 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"111.17554125219\">\n<p>Maryland Democrats are under fire for a proposed redistricting plan that could oust the state&#8217;s lone Republican in Congress, a move one Democratic representative called &#8220;overreach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Legislative Redistricting Advisory Commission on Thursday proposed four possible electoral maps. All the maps would alter Republican Andy Harris&#8217;s district, and at least one could leave the state with only Democratic representatives. Attendees from both parties at Thursday&#8217;s hearing called the plans &#8220;insulting,&#8221; &#8220;despicable,&#8221; and &#8220;horrifying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>States are in the middle of a once-a-decade redistricting process that will influence which party controls Congress. Democrats have pushed partisan redistricting efforts in Illinois and New York along with Maryland, which has some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/eric-holder-refused-to-join-nonpartisan-gerrymandering-reform-effort\/\">worst<\/a>-gerrymandered districts in the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1541325\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1541325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-1-e1637350237396.png\" alt width=\"736\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current gerrymandering in Md. \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The commission consists of four Democrats and two Republicans from the Maryland state legislature. One of its proposed maps would remove the largely rural, Republican-leaning Cecil County from Harris&#8217;s district and group it with solidly blue Baltimore. Two maps would add parts of Annapolis, which sits across the Chesapeake Bay, to Harris&#8217;s district.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1541322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1541322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-19-at-12.27.26-PM-e1637350211379.png\" alt width=\"736\" height=\"587\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">One proposed, gerrymandered map \/ <em>FiveThirtyEight<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Princeton University&#8217;s Gerrymandering Project gave all of the commission&#8217;s proposed maps an &#8220;F.&#8221; Two alternative maps proposed by Republican governor Larry Hogan&#8217;s nonpartisan redistricting board received an &#8220;A&#8221; from the project. The commission will choose a final map on which it will vote during a special session next month.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D., Md.), a former president and CEO of the NAACP, on Wednesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EhOTSnae2-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> a local radio show that his party&#8217;s efforts to gerrymander the state is an &#8220;overreach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it were the other way around and Democrats were one-third of the population and they put forward maps, or started moving toward an 8-0 representation, we&#8217;d be jumping up and down in arms,&#8221; Mfume said.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Galbraith, a Democrat who ran in Harris&#8217;s district in 2020, said during the Tuesday hearing that she opposes the proposed maps. Galbraith, a former vice chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, said she wants to see Harris voted out in a fair manner rather than forced out by partisan gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cost is more than just one congressional seat,&#8221; Galbraith said. &#8220;Voters aren&#8217;t going to forget this, and there&#8217;s going to be a price to pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden in 2020 received 65 percent of the vote in Maryland. Internal polling data from Change Maryland, a Hogan-allied group, found that just 12 percent of respondents support letting politicians draw the maps, while 77 percent support giving that job to a commission that does not include politicians, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/16\/larry-hogan-maryland-redistricting-congressional-maps-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Daily Caller<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you people not believe in telling the truth?&#8221; one Maryland resident asked the legislative commission during the Tuesday hearing. &#8220;This is perjury. \u2026 I&#8217;m going to start calling you people Donald Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harris told the <em>Free Beacon <\/em>that he thinks Democrats&#8217; redistricting decisions are driven by fear of Republican midterm victories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their calculation will be based purely on whether they are willing to roll the dice and risk one or two of their incumbents in what is looking to be a very good year for Republicans nationally,&#8221; Harris said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Commission proposed maps that could oust state&#8217;s lone Republican  Maryland&#8217;s gerrymandered congressional districts \/ Wikimedia Commons  Patrick Hauf and Matthew Foldi \u2022 November &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"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-1032766","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\/1032766","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\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032766\/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=1032766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}