Berger's voter disenfranchisement problem
Submitted by scharrison on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:24pm
Leaving 43,000 folks out in the cold:
The map leaves 43,000 residents of the new District 6 without representation in county government for the next two years. State Senate leader Phil Berger, who's responsible for creating this mess, still won't acknowledge that a problem exists let alone move to fix it.
That's because he doesn't consider it a "problem". Republicans in the General Assembly have treated municipalities/county governments with nothing but contempt since they took charge. If they could, they would take away all local representation, leaving everybody to depend on (a useless) state government for their needs. In a perfect world (again, we don't live there), that would equate to 43,000 votes against Berger (or whoever) in the next election.
Hat-tip to Doug Clark
He calls 'em like he sees 'em, and that takes a lot of guts for a Conservative-leaning editorialist.
Here's to hope
From your keyboard to God's ears, sch.
"They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people a dollar 'n a half just to see 'em. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."