Redistricting Reform
July 9th, 2006
It’s time to end the incumbent protection racket in Albany, the New York Times says. Now redistricting is in the hands of the legislature which , the paper charges, stack the deck so voters “wind up choosing between the incumbent and a sacrificial lamb dragooned by an opposition that has no hope of victory.”
To change that, the paper endorses a bill proposed by Assemblymember Michael Gianaris that would would require the state to set up an independent commission to “redraw the maps and the legislature would approve or reject then, with no tinkering allowed.” To put pressure on politicians to support that plan, the Times urges New Yorkers to ask politicians looking for their vote to “support fair mapmaking.”
By Gail Robinson on July 9, 2006, 7:38 pmIn category: Albany, Electoral Politics, Gotham City, Governing | No Comments »

