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Lekha Shupeck

@lekhashupeck

14 Sep

Y'all one thing I have to say - I am concerned that people are not making effective comments at public hearings - that they're making comments that can be easily ignored by the redistricting committee.

If you show up and talk about wanting an independent commission, or say you want fair maps without saying what that means in a very granular and specific way you are giving the committee license to ignore you.

The response from the legislators running the committee to those kinds of comments are basically going to be 1) we don't have an independent commission, so too bad, we're drawing the maps 2) we think the maps we're drawing *are* "fair"

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Lekha Shupeck

@lekhashupeck

14 Sep

Just got here for the Elizabeth City Redistricting Public Hearing! #ncpol

Sen. Warren Daniel is starting off the meeting.

Rep. Bobby Hanig and Rep. Edward Goodwin are both here as well.

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Lekha Shupeck

@lekhashupeck

8 Sep

Ok! Made it to the right location! Waiting for the Caldwell County (home of House Redistricting Chair, Rep. Destin Hall) public hearing to start!

This building says it requires masks, however, most of the legislators are not wearing one - while all the attendees I can see are.

Rep. Hall is opening the meeting now.

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Lekha Shupeck

@lekhashupeck

12 Aug

Here at joint House and Senate Redistricting for the discussion and vote on redistricting criteria #ncpol

Apparently there are a bunch of amendments that aren't yet ready for discussion, so the committee will go at ease until 9:15am

We're being pushed back until 10am. Apparently all amendments are from Dems - I'm actually a little bit surprised considering how vague / unfinished the proposed criteria seem.

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Lekha Shupeck

@lekhashupeck

10 Aug

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this morning's redistricting criteria hearing.

@JBremerDevt

Either NCGA staff was lying when they said a lot of people had already signed up before public sign up info was released, and that Sen. Newton's LA was collecting those signups (a statement that many others heard, including more-level-headed-than-me @JBremerDevt)

Or legislative leadership decided it wasn't a good look to pack the place with loyalists, and so decided to let the people online who signed up using the public link speak instead

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Lekha Shupeck

@lekhashupeck

10 Aug

So, there's this mockery of a public hearing - but what about the proposed redistricting criteria themselves? Well, you can watch our training here:

But if you missed that / don't have time to watch, I'll walk through the criteria in this thread:

First of all, here's a link to the document containing all of the proposed criteria: ncleg.gov/documentsites/…

The chairs might have told you they're the same as in 2019, but they're actually quite different and much, much more vague.

I'm going to skip over Equal Population, Contiguity, and Counties, Groupings, and Traversals because those are all mandated specifically by the constitution or court precedent and are therefore always the same.

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