Cut your losses, and hope your brand isn’t totally besmirched.
('Cause you’re gonna lose this fight anyway, or that some politicians actually have a shred of honor left – pick one.)
“If the legislature rejects the map, the commission could make
alterations and present it again. If lawmakers reject it a second time,
the Virginia Supreme Court would decide the final boundaries.”
Republican backs are against the wall and they are trying to parse it out as a win. As usual. Next election they are going down.
Cox said his support for a redistricting commission after opposing similar plans in the past was not motivated by his party’s political prospects.
Wow. I was totally wrong about why he is now supporting a bipartisan commission approach.
If you can’t beat’em, join’em? Seems like the smart move.
So instead of the federal judges who redrew districts in a way that will quite possibly throw him out of office, he wants a designed-for-deadlock committee with members appointed by him and his cronies, who results he can delay for at least one electoral cycle and perhaps two. With part of its mandate being to preserve parity between parties apparently regardless of vote totals.
Oh, and also to deny the democrats any chance at the same kind of gerrymandering his party has been doing.
““Your hope would be that you wouldn’t have Democrats systematically filing lawsuits,” Cox said.”
Right…because we’re just supposed to roll over for Republicans systematically trying to create their white Christian tribalist hegemony through gerrymandering to give themselves permanent minority-rule?
It worked fine until 1861…
With Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam in office, that would put
Democrats in complete control of the next redistricting.
Oh My ! … Anything but THAT ! …
The lesser of two cheats … is still a cheat —