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Cartoons bring satire to redistricting debate

by Meg Tully | April 10, 2014 | General Assembly, Uncategorized | 0 |

A coalition of groups against gerrymandering is hoping laughter will be the best medicine for redistricting concerns.

The “Tame the Gerrymander” effort announced Thursday that it had awarded prizes for three political cartoons critiquing Maryland’s new legislative districts.

Three bills seek to overhaul legislative redistricting process

by Len Lazarick | March 3, 2014 | General Assembly, News | 3 |

Maryland’s controversial legislative redistricting is again the target of bills designed to overhaul the process and make it less partisan. Legislators are trying to introduce transparency and civic participation into the redistricting procedure, which now leaves the governor in control and the process wide open to political gerrymandering.

The posters put up by the staff of U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin said, “Thank you Howard County,” but they might just as well have said “Thank you, Ben” from the elected officials who met with the retiring senator Friday.

The effusive praise and thanks for Cardin’s 58 years of elected service were mutual in the second leg of his “farewell tour” of the state. He’s represented Marylanders for 18 years in the Senate, 20 years in the U.S. House and 20 years in the state House of Delegates, including eight as speaker.

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Cartoons bring satire to redistricting debate

Three bills seek to overhaul legislative redistricting process

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