{"id":1163160,"date":"2021-12-28T00:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T05:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1163160"},"modified":"2021-12-28T00:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T05:04:59","slug":"sens-warner-kaine-virginia-redistricting-targets-women-in-our-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sens-warner-kaine-virginia-redistricting-targets-women-in-our-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Warner, Kaine: Virginia Redistricting Targets &#039;Women in Our Delegation&#039;"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fsens-warner-kaine-virginia-redistricting-targets-women-in-our-delegation%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=1163160&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_18288848172583.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Virginia\u2019s two Democrat senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluevirginia.us\/2021\/12\/senators-mark-warner-tim-kaine-submit-comments-to-va-supreme-court-arguing-proposed-map-places-the-heavy-weight-of-change-on-the-three-women-in-the-delegation\">say<\/a> a \u201cheavy weight\u201d is being placed on \u201cthe three women in the delegation,\u201d after a new proposed congressional map removes two of the Commonwealth\u2019s female U.S. Representatives from their districts and significantly alters another\u2019s district.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent to the clerk of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Warner and Kaine wrote that they \u201cbelieve it is possible to spread the burden of changing district lines across the entire delegation,\u201d and ensure the court that their letter \u201cis not intended to be a partisan critique.\u201d All three women in Virginia\u2019s congressional delegation are Democrats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Elaine Luria, the senators point out, \u201cwould no longer live in the districts that they have now been elected twice to represent,\u201d while Rep. Jennifer Wexton\u2019s district was \u201csignificantly redrawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vacourts.gov\/courts\/scv\/districting\/maps_special_masters.pdf\">maps<\/a>, which were submitted by two special masters, one nominated by each party and approved by the Commonwealth\u2019s Supreme Court, would essentially erase Spanberger\u2019s Seventh Congressional District, and redistribute its geography among several other districts.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed maps, Warner and Kaine write, are \u201casking the women in our delegation to shoulder a disproportionate burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But as the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2021\/12\/09\/virginia-redistricting-maps-incumbents\/\">pointed<\/a> out, the map \u201cstill gives Democrats an edge,\u201d despite leaving Spanberger \u201cnearly 50 miles away\u201d from the border of her current district.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, under the special masters\u2019 proposal, six of Virginia\u2019s 11 congressional districts would benefit Democrats, while four would benefit Republicans. The last one, Luria\u2019s Second Congressional District \u2014 which is already fairly competitive \u2014 would become even more of a toss-up.<\/p>\n<p>The special masters said they did not consider or even know any representatives\u2019 \u2014 federal or state \u2014 address when drawing the maps. Further, in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vacourts.gov\/courts\/scv\/districting\/memorandum_re_va_redistricting_2021.pdf\">memo<\/a> to the Supreme Court submitting the maps, the bipartisan pair said they&nbsp;\u201cagreed on almost all issues initially, and the few issues on which we initially disagreed were resolved by amicable discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias posted a list to Twitter on Sunday placing Virginia as the number three most likely state to look for \u201cnew voting rights, redistricting and pro-democracy litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: States to watch for new voting rights, redistricting and pro-democracy litigation (in order of likelihood):<\/p>\n<p>1. Georgia<br \/>2. Arizona<br \/>3. Virginia<br \/>4. New York<br \/>5. Arkansas<br \/>6. Oklahoma<br \/>7. Michigan<br \/>8. Texas<br \/>9. New Hampshire<br \/>10. South Carolina<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1475177583780237316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia\u2019s two Democrat senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine,\u00a0say a \u201cheavy weight\u201d is being placed on \u201cthe three women in the delegation,\u201d after a new proposed congressional map removes two &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"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-1163160","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\/1163160","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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163160\/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=1163160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}