Dayhoff Soundtrack: Len Lazarick - MarylandReporter.com: Hurricane impacts redistricting hearings

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Len Lazarick - MarylandReporter.com: Hurricane impacts redistricting hearings

Hurricane impacts redistricting hearings

http://marylandreporter.com/2011/09/01/hurricane-impacts-redistricting-hearings/

September 01, 2011

This map from the Department of Planning shows population growth during the last decade in the state's eight current congressional districts.

Former Delegate Jim King put on a suit and tie for the redistricting hearings in Annapolis and Columbia Tuesday.

http://marylandreporter.com/2011/09/01/hurricane-impacts-redistricting-hearings/

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In both venues, more Republicans than Democrats chose to testify, perhaps because they recognized that redistricting in Maryland has tended to hurt Republicans and favor Democrats.

The five-member advisory committee appointed by O’Malley is chaired by his patronage chief Jeanne Hitchcock and includes Senate President Mike Miller, House Speaker Mike Busch, and Richard Stewart, a businessman who chaired the governor’s reelection campaign in Prince George’s County. All are Democrats except for King.

They are supposed to recommend a congressional redistricting map in September and a legislative redistricting map in December. There will be a special session of the General Assembly in October to enact the congressional map.

The Annapolis hearing kicked off with a harangue from Brian Griffiths, president of the Maryland Young Republicans, who complained about the hearing’s timing and called the current congressional district maps “disgraceful.”

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http://marylandreporter.com/2011/09/01/hurricane-impacts-redistricting-hearings/

––Len Lazarick

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