Thread by @DavidPepper

THREAD -- RIDDING OHIO OF Jim Jordan AND THE NATION'S WORST GERRYMANDERING

All of those who want to get rid of Jim Jordan, and his antics, please read this thread

Jordan is an Ohio embarrassment. A national embarrassment. But he's also a symptom of a much bigger problem...

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Gerrymandering.

Ohio's gerrymandering--as bad as any in the nation--is not only destroying any semblance of a functional political system in Ohio govt--but it's sending the likes of Jordan to Congress with no accountability.

So he gets away with his antics again and again.

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Here is a map of Jim Jordan's district. Yes, it looks like a duck, twisting and turning from Lorain down to Urbana (!)

But the deeper problem is that it's rigged. It's designed in a way that allows Jordan to act like he does, every day, with no accountability back in Ohio.

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So for someone like Jordan, he views his re-election every two years as akin to a reappointment. His rigged district doesn't matter to him.

And his outrageous actions every day in Washington are completely unmoored from his district, or the needs of the people back home.

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And he's not the only one. All around Ohio, the districts are designed in all sorts of absurd ways, ways that have nothing to do with representation of Ohio needs.

Here's the 6th, and if you haven't watched Bill Johnson, he basically acts just like Jordan.

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And here's the district they drew for @RepMarcyKaptur in order to pit two Democrats against each other and guarantee GOP wins elsewhere. There are points of the district where you need snorkel gear to get through.

Of course, Marcy does a great job regardless.

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And if you wonder why Steve Chabot is still in office when he is so out of touch with the needs of Hamilton Cty, look no further than this map. A city split in 1/2

It extended his career by another 10 years even though no one can figure out what he actually does in Congress

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I could go on

The bottom line is that this is why OH sends the likes of Jordan, Chabot, Johnson to DC year after year

And they also rest at the heart of the corrupt & extreme politics of the mask-hating, science-denying, abortion-banning freakshow that is the OH Statehouse

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The rigged districts have made Ohio legislatures wholly unrepresentative of Ohio. Example:

In 2018, the statehouse breakdown in voting across Ohio was 50% R, 49% D. What was the result of that 50-50 breakdown in districts?

Republicans have 61 districts, Democrats 38 (!)

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For Congress?

52% of Ohioans voted for a Republican, 47% for a Democrat.

The outcome? 12 GOP districts vs. 4 Dem districts.

This is not a democracy.

And that's all bad news.....

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But here's the good news: THIS CAN ALL BE FIXED IN 27 DAYS!

1st, from @ShannonFreshour to @KateForCongress to @RobertsOhioD6 & others, we have awesome candidates taking on these gerrymandered GOP'ers and holding them accountable

We will break through in some of these races

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Second, that's also true in the statehouse. We have an amazing slate of candidates running across Ohio, and we will flip more seats from red to blue despite the gerrymandering.

BUT we also have a chance to rid ourselves of this rigged, corrupt system once and for all.

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But we need your help to get it done. Here's how:

Twice, OH voters overwhelmingly voted to change our OH constitution in recent years. To rid ourselves of the extreme partisan gerrymandering that enables Jordan, Nino Vitale and John Becker.

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cleveland.com/open/2018/05/o…

So our Constitution is now clear

But step 2 is to ensure that we have a FAIR COURT that will both construe & enforce the new language for what it says -- an END to partisan gerrymandering

The OH Supreme Court will be THE court that reviews any attempt to gerrymander again

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So THIS is the opportunity of our generation, to unrig Ohio politics.

Currently, after Ohio Dems won both races in 2018, the court has a 5-2 GOP majority.

But we have two Dem candidates challenging incumbents right now. We win both races, we flip the court to 4-3 Dems.

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And the precedent is clear--when you have a fair state supreme court, it means the end of partisan gerrymandering in that state.

Pennsylvania is a perfect example. A fair court toppled their terrible gerrymandering:

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pubintlaw.org/cases-and-proj…

Same thing happened in North Carolina.

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slate.com/news-and-polit…

Bottom line: flip the court in Ohio, we end gerrymandering here. We unrig the system.

We give the voters a chance to clean up a corrupt state legislature, and we end a system that has given us the likes of Jim Jordan for a decade.

Our delegations better reflect our state

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And the best part?

Both our candidates--Jennifer Brunner & John O'Donnell--are ahead in polls, outside the margin error

So the end of gerrymandering is within our grasp!

But the other side knows it too (even Karl Rove is involved) so we need your help to seal the deal.

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We have a fund that specifically goes to support our effort to win these races. Think of it as our fund to end gerrymandering.

We use it to educate voters to vote all the way through their ballot (the key to victory in these races, as we saw in 2018).

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We greatly need more grassroots dollars in this fund.

In recent weeks, the twitterverse has responded to my calls for support in incredible ways, but I need your help once again

Please give what you can to end gerrymandering here. Then tell others

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The Republicans are on the ropes here in Ohio.

Trump is behind here.

They are in the middle of the worst corruption scandal in Ohio history.

We will win more statehouse seats...

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But the true nail in the coffin of GOP dominance will come through the end of gerrymandering, and a new and independent Ohio Supreme Court.

We will see the fruits of that change for the rest of our political lives.

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Bottom line: please give whatever you can to end Ohio's gerrymandering, then RT that you did so, so others do as well.

Thank you.

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