{"id":26378,"date":"2012-02-22T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26378"},"modified":"2012-02-22T06:50:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T12:50:54","slug":"from-pyongyang-to-pyongyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26378","title":{"rendered":"From Pyongyang to Pyongyin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went through redistricting, and all I got was this lousy “Foul-Mouthed” Sandy Pappas<\/a> and \u00a0Rena “Voter ID is a Jim Crow Law” Moran<\/a>. \u00a0If you’re a Republican in Saint Paul, “redistricting” is like, well, moving from Pyongyang to Pyongyin.<\/p>\n

It could have been worse; I’m across the street from my old 66B, which is now the turf of John Lesch.<\/p>\n

Overall? \u00a0It wasn’t a horrible map for the GOP – there are a slew of outstate open seats that broadly seem to favor the GOP (I’ll do some analysis over the weekend when I have some time, here).<\/p>\n

But the more I talk with activists around the state, the more I realize that the DFL got its money’s worth for everything they’ve spent on judges over the decades. \u00a0Gary Gross at the Examiner <\/em>writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Representative Sarah Anderson [who led the Legislative redistricting effort] said that the court-drawn is troubling in that the courts didn’t appear to follow the rulings they handed down prior to their final maps.<\/p>\n

Rep. Anderson said that the court-drawn maps split up more cities and counties than did the legislative maps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rep. Anderson that the court-drawn map drives up the costs cities will incur in administering elections. They’ll have to order multiple versions of ballots. They’ll have to put more polling places together to guarantee that the ballots don’t get mixed together, thus creating an election night nightmare.<\/p>\n

The legislative maps stuck to the rules handed down by the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2002. This court didn’t adhere to those rules, thereby destabilizing the redistricting process. That essentially means that this court has put itself above the political branches. Their final maps puts them essentially in charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was a redistricting cycle that should have gone a lot <\/em>worse for the DFL. \u00a0Their turf shrank catastrophically, and the GOP’s territory boomed. \u00a0The judges seemed to have bent over backwards to keep the DFL from losing any unnecessary influence.<\/p>\n

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I went through redistricting, and all I got was this lousy “Foul-Mouthed” Sandy Pappas and \u00a0Rena “Voter ID is a Jim Crow Law” Moran. \u00a0If you’re a Republican in Saint Paul, “redistricting” is like, well, moving from Pyongyang to Pyongyin. It could have been worse; I’m across the street from my old 66B, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26387,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions\/26387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}