By Bryan P. Sears Carletta Fellows, a spokeswoman for the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC, announces support for a Republican congressional redistricting plan that ... ....
A coalition of African-American voting rights groups and Republicans announced they will oppose Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to redraw the state's eight congressional districts and warned that they intend to take the issue to court.
Carletta Fellows, a spokeswoman for the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC, called O'Malley's plan "institutional racism" and said it violates the federal Voting Rights Act by not creating a third majority minority district.
O'Malley's plan, which will have a hearing Monday afternoon, apparently attempts to protect six incumbent Democratic U.S. House members. There would also be changes for a Republican-held district, made up mostly of western Maryland, that would make elections there more competitive by adding part of Montgomery County... http://reisterstown.patch.com/articles/coalition-threatens-court-fight-over-redistricting-plan
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