Play with fire
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The Centennial State may have America’s worst Democratic governor, but the rest of the party for the most part Gets It:
A group allied with Colorado Democrats is beginning a drive to tear up the state’s House map for the 2028 and 2030 elections and hand the party more seats, in a sign that the nation’s gerrymandering wars are likely to go on for years.
A ballot measure backed by the group would ask voters this November to suspend the state’s independent redistricting commission for two election cycles and install a map with as many as three more Democratic-leaning seats. Colorado’s House delegation currently includes four Democrats and four Republicans.
The group, Coloradans for a Level Playing Field, is framing the effort as a response to Republicans’ moves on redistricting that started last year. It argues that the proposal would be only temporary, with the state’s independent commission restored after the 2030 census.
“No one wanted to have to take this action — independent redistricting is the ideal,” Curtis Hubbard, a spokesman for the group, said in a news release. “We can sit back and do nothing, or we can take action to approve temporary maps that will help keep our elections on a level playing field.”
The group said it would need to gather roughly 125,000 signatures before an Aug. 3 deadline to place the redistricting measure on the ballot in November.
Brita Horn, the chairwoman of the Republican Party of Colorado, said the state’s voters still supported the independent redistricting commission they adopted before the 2022 elections.
“Coloradans wanted to get partisan politics out of the redistricting process then, and they have no interest in seeing it return to our state,” Ms. Horn said. “The effort to get rid of these commissions and to gerrymander Colorado explicitly in favor of the Democrats is nothing more than an effort by dark-money progressive-Democrat groups to regain control from the citizens of Colorado.”
The new group has the backing of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and its chairman, Eric H. Holder Jr., the former U.S. attorney general. It is expected to receive funding from, among other groups, the House Majority PAC, the main super PAC for House Democrats.
No gerrymandering >> both sides gerrymander >>>>>>> unilateral disarmament is obviously true, and it seems like Trump’s midterm redistricting demands has entrenched it among most Democratic elites.
We should mention here that Eric Holder is the anti-Merrick Garland [highly laudatory.]