Statehouse Beat: ; Depriving the Choice of Experienced Incumbents
Charleston Gazette › November 15, 2011
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IF there was any doubt that, from the Legislature's perspective, the first and paramount goal of redistricting is self-preservation, House Speaker Rick Thompson's response to the lawsuits now pending in the state Supreme Court removed it.
The response makes note that an alternative 100 single-member district plan offered by one of the petitioners, Thornton Cooper, is actually much closer to having ideally proportionate districts, with much smaller population deviations among districts (ranging from minus-3.99 percent to plus-3.5 percent) than the House plan (with deviations of minus 5 percent to 4.99 percent).See the full content of this document
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Statehouse Beat: ; Depriving the Choice of Experienced Incumbents
(Any deviation over 5 percent constitutes a violation of the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.)
However, as Thompson notes, "Cooper's plan ... would cause a number of current members to be forced to run against each oth...See the full content of this document
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