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This is incredible: North Carolina Republicans have proposed that Art Pope—who funded REDMAP, the GOP's gerrymandering program, in NC, and literally helped draw the 2011 gerrymander there—serve as a special master to help draw new legislative districts. documentcloud.org/documents/6386…
The proposal comes in response to a decision by a North Carolina court invalidating the state's current legislative maps as an illegal partisan gerrymander.
Republicans want *a notorious gerrymanderer* to draw the maps that replace the illegal ones. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Republicans want *a notorious gerrymanderer* to draw the maps that replace the illegal ones. slate.com/news-and-polit…
"Bad faith" isn't a strong enough term for what North Carolina Republicans are doing here. It's more like trolling the court. Again, Art Pope bankrolled *and helped draw* NC's gerrymanders. To propose that he help fix the current gerrymander is just flipping off the judges.
North Carolina Republicans proposed that @gercohen, a member of the Wake County Board of Elections, help draw the new maps with Art Pope.
Apparently they didn't ask Cohen first—he says this is the first he's heard about it.
Apparently they didn't ask Cohen first—he says this is the first he's heard about it.
More info on Art Pope in this great piece newyorker.com/magazine/2011/… h/t @EveryVoiceNC
