Thread by @lekhashupeck

When Republicans gerrymander the shit out of our maps is he going to lift one finger to do anything about it? 🙄 We all know the answer.

I am so sick of the bad faith involved in saying you oppose gerrymandering and not actually using your substantial influence to stop it.

https://twitter.com/AndySpecht/status/1443564604265803785

It's the same schlocky theater that we're getting from Republican leadership when they say that they're not going to use racial or political data and therefore couldn't possibly gerrymander.

We all know that this is a façade - they don't need the data to gerrymander and there's no proof it's not being used behind the scenes anyway.

And if the maps show up and they create extreme partisan gerrymanders that hugely advantage Republicans?

They'll claim we're all hysterical idiots, of course there's no gerrymander, how could there be? We didn't use the data!

Meanwhile, the truth will be staring us in the face while they continue to plead innocence.

I'm reminded that our state motto is "ease quam videri" - "to be rather than to seem".

I take it's fuller meaning from Sallust when speaking of Cato the Younger (one of my favorite Romans): "esse quam videri bonus malebat"

"He preferred to be good rather than to seem so"

This whole redistricting process has been crafted around the opposite principle - being secretive, opaque, inaccessible, highly partisan, and unprincipled - and shouting from the rooftops about how good and fair it is.

North Carolinians are smart. They've been the victims of extreme gerrymandering for the past decade. They've been through the endless lawsuits due to your refusal to do the right thing.

They're not going to buy your bullshit.