Tag: Redistricting
Redistricting groups faced with uneven population ...
By Capital News Service | October 7, 2021 | News | 0 |
Redistricting groups ponder single vs. multi-membe...
By Capital News Service | September 30, 2021 | News | 1 |
Citizens should draw 2021 md redistricting plans
By Howard Gorrell | February 3, 2021 | Commentary | 0 |
Hogan issues order to establish redistricting comm...
By Bryan Renbaum | January 12, 2021 | Governor | 0 |
Redistricting reform tries to stay alive despite l...
By Len Lazarick | February 29, 2016 | News | 2 |
Legislature overrides Hogan’s veto of congressional maps
by Capital News Service | December 9, 2021 | News | 0 |
The Maryland General Assembly voted to override a veto from Gov. Larry Hogan, R, to officially pass a congressional redistricting plan favored by Democrats.
On a 96 to 42 vote, the House overrode the veto on HB1, while the Senate voted 32 to 14.
Read MoreRedistricting groups faced with uneven population growth
by Capital News Service | October 7, 2021 | News | 0 |
Congressional districts should be as close to zero variance of population as possible, according to Karl Aro, who chairs the Legislative Redistricting Advisory Commission. But at the state level, “equal” doesn’t have to be as exact.
Read MoreRedistricting groups ponder single vs. multi-member maps
by Capital News Service | September 30, 2021 | News | 1 |
One of Maryland’s two redistricting commissions is tasked with proposing a state legislative map using only single-member delegate districts, but the current mixed system still has significant support.
Read MoreCitizens should draw 2021 md redistricting plans
by Howard Gorrell | February 3, 2021 | Commentary | 0 |
Maryland should join eight states to provide that their redistricting authority shall accept and consider maps drawn and submitted by public members.
Read MoreHogan issues order to establish redistricting commission to address gerrymandering
by Bryan Renbaum | January 12, 2021 | Governor | 0 |
Gov. Larry Hogan issued an order to establish a redistricting commission that will be composed of ordinary citizens and is tasked with making the state’s congressional and legislative districts more competitive.
Read MoreRedistricting reform tries to stay alive despite leadership opposition
by Len Lazarick | February 29, 2016 | News | 2 |
Reforming the way congressional and legislative districts are carved up in Maryland may have been declared dead on arrival by Democratic leaders, but the Hogan administration and a few progressive Democratic legislators are keeping the issue alive at hearings this week. The co-chairs of the governor’s redistricting commission presented their proposal for a new commission completely independent of politicians to the House Rules Committee. Del. Kirill Reznik, D-Montgomery, is proposing his own version of an independent commission to be made up of the nonpartisan legislative staff.
Read MoreUnusual political coalition for redistricting reform battles intransigent Democrats
by Maryland Reporter | February 10, 2016 | Commentary, General Assembly | 9 |
The ongoing issue of redistricting in Maryland represents one of the most unique political alignments in state politics in some time. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has found common cause on this issue with not only his Republican base, but independent voters as well as progressive and “good government” Democrats. Liberal special interest groups have endorsed Hogan’s plan and criticized the state’s Democratic leadership. Even the editorial boards of the state’s leading newspapers have overwhelmingly supported the governor’s cause on this issue.
Read MoreHogan has high ratings in poll, redistricting reform favored
by Len Lazarick | October 5, 2015 | News | 0 |
Gov. Larry Hogan gets positive approval ratings in the latest Goucher College poll, as does one of his top priorities this fall, an independent redistricting commission, but it is not an important issue to most residents.
Read MoreRascovar: Gerrymandering is here to stay
by Maryland Reporter | October 4, 2015 | Commentary | 0 |
Good intentions and wishful thinking will not get advocates of redistricting reform very far. They fail to grasp that the process is 100 percent political. The sweeping changes they seek won’t happen. Reporters, editors and editorialists are strongly on the side of the reformers. So are political science academics and supporters of “good government.” None of that matters one iota.
Read MoreRedistricting should restore representative democracy
by Todd Eberly | September 29, 2015 | News | 5 |
A critique of Maryland’s gerrymandered districts should not be viewed as an attack on the Democratic Party. It’s not. It is an attack on a process that encourages both parties to substitute their needs and their agenda for those of the people and the voters. It’s an attack on a process that subverts the very nature of representative government by allowing those in office to choose their voters instead of allowing voters to choose those who will serve in office.
Read MoreRedistricting Reform Commission to hold first hearing Tuesday, schedules 4 more
by Maryland Reporter | September 13, 2015 | News | 4 |
Gov. Larry Hogan’s recently formed Redistricting Reform Commission will hold the first of five regional meetings this Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Sept. 15, in the Minnegan Room at Towson University’s Johnny Unitas Stadium.
Read MoreRedistricting Reform Commission holds first meeting with just 10 weeks to act
by Maryland Reporter | August 27, 2015 | News | 0 |
Gov. Larry Hogan’s 11-member Redistricting Reform Commission, created on Aug. 6 by executive order, met for first time near the State House Thursday where they outlined their first steps to reform the process of drawing Maryland’s congressional and legislative district lines. They have less than 10 weeks to finish their work and make recommendations to the governor and legislature.
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