(Watch)
Tonight marks the 34th public meeting of the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission. This independent commission—the first of its kind in state history—is charged with drawing fair legislative and congressional maps for the 2022 elections. None of its members are elected officials or candidates for office, and the governor has no involvement in the commission’s work.
The citizens commission has received 86 map submissions from the public, and continues to take public comment on its draft maps.
Meanwhile, the legislature’s partisan commission has issued no draft maps of any kind for public comment, and has no portal for citizens to draw their own maps. As one representative of the League of Women Voters said, “It seems rather difficult for people to comment on the basis of a blank map.”
The legislature’s commission “hopes” to produce draft maps by mid-November, around when the commission will hold its last hearing—leaving essentially no time for any meaningful public comment.
Earlier this year, legislative leaders said “it’s really essential that people have something to respond to as opposed to just showing up at a commission meeting to hear things.” But that’s exactly what they’re doing.
What are they hiding?
What are they hiding??? LOL!
They ain’t hidin’ anything.
They don’t give a rat’s ass about what “We, the People” think, want, or say.
This “citizen input” thing has ALWAYS been a scam to make citizens BELIEVE they “have a say”.
And, worse, citizens fall for it every time.
I could hide an elephant in my back seat better than they hide their disdain for constituents.
Keep cheering.
This is a CROOK OF SH–T. The last time MARYLAND conducted a redistricting fiasco O’Malley and the DEMOCRATS conducted a sham on the citizens and did a DEMOCRAT favorable redistricting maps which eliminated at least two (2) REPUBLICAN seats.
This is just another scam conducted by the DEMOCRATS. Don’t tell me it is a non-partisans’ committee, because that is only on paper. HOGAN said there will be a legit redistricting this time. HA HA HOGAN will side with what the DEMOCRATS want like he has done his entire governorship.
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE HOW BAD REPUBLICANS GET SCREWED THIS TIME.
Can’t wait to see hogan gone
They are after all Democrat favored redistricting. If you remember they did not like it a while back when Harris voted for something they did not like so I guess they are trying to redistrict the Eastern Shore. Watch and see!!! Hogan is a Democrat with an Rino image.