Swarm at Work - GOP's Ridiculous Gerrymandering of Election Map Created a District called "Goofy Kicking Donald Duck" (Congressmen, health care)
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Critics often point to the oddly shaped Seventh District outside Philadelphia, which they assert was designed to protect Republican Rep. Pat Meehan. It has been likened to “Goofy kicking Donald Duck.” Democrats have targeted the district, carried in 2016 by Hillary Clinton, in their effort to regain House control.
LOL. Check out the shape of that district. The Republicans actually had the gall create that and then look the state Supreme Court in the eyes and say they saw nothing wrong.
If they are that blatant out in the open, imagine what they are doing in the shadows.
It’s predictable that you only whine about the other guy’s gerrymandered districts. Not a peep out of you for the 24+ years this monstrosity kept newly convicted felon Corrine Brown in office for 24 years.
The gerrymandering in Pa cost us a truly great US congressman, Tim Holden. He was from Schuylkill County and had a 60% voter base in an otherwise fairly conservative district including Berks. He was one of the last blue dog dems, conservative on social issues but very pro business and pro job. He was a dem so the GOP hated him and wanted him out, I still remember the ridiculous election ploys the GOP used trying to paint him as a liberal. But the dems wanted him gone because he wasn't nearly liberal enough and not a party zombie. So the redistricting shifted his district towards the more backwards Poconos and he was defeated in the primary by a very liberal candidate. It was a lose lose scenario.
We got Jim Gerlach a repub in our newly carved district who kept his seat. The dems kept running ultra liberal candidates against him and they lost. And these were BAD candidates. I voted for Gerlach, he was a pretty good guy. His sudden retirement was added to a list of " sudden retirements" of a number of congressmen which makes me wonder if the deep state doesn't get things on these people and then forces them out if they don't play ball. Now another Pa congressman, Charlie Dent is retiring as well. Hmmm.
So we're getting increasingly abandoned by both parties and the feds. partisan politics and extremism is getting out of control. Look at Philadelphia.... its a mess with its DA and mayor. And we had some truly pathetic dems as candidates. One was an Asian American woman who was skewered for being friends with the DC shooter who shot up the baseball practice. Another was a doctor who lived in DC and worked as a lobbyist for health care insurers. Yeah, both parties and the feds are abandoning the voter shere in Pa. Plus look at Pa and NJ's governors.... very radical.
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