It's hard to imagine people did NOT see this happening from a mile away:
"Voters, not politicians?" If you believe that nonsense, I suspect you will be VERY INTERESTED in waterfront property in Sanford.The commission, by law, is supposed to be made up of four Democrats, four Republicans and five independents.
But two of the professed independent members of the commission appear to have strong ties to Democrats or liberal causes. This adds to a pattern of partisanship the redistricting commission was purportedly designed to avoid.
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In addition, the commission has opened its doors to experts like Matthew Petering, a professor from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to present on a map-drawing algorithm he developed (Petering’s also a Bernie Sanders financial supporter).
Yet it has refused to grant an equal opportunity to former state Supreme Court justice Stephen Markman, who has sought for months to address the commission over his concerns with its definition of community in forming district lines. Markman teaches constitutional law at Hillsdale College, which commissioned him to write a report to the redistricting commission on this issue.