The Detroit News has this lengthy story about Congressman Justin Amash and the Libertarian Party. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
The Detroit News has this lengthy story about Congressman Justin Amash and the Libertarian Party. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
How many STALIN/HITLER TYPE COMMAND orders from Devil City to PURGE the LP and Greens ???
I was always under the impression he was considering a potential LP presidential run because he thought he was going to be gerrymandered out of his district. I never knew he couldn’t file for both a presidential run and re-election to Congress under Michigan law. I wonder if such a law is even constitutional?
Allegedly quite separate regimes — USA — State.
Again — the QUALIFICATION STUFF V BALLOT ACCESS.
It would be quite difficult to gerrymander his seat. Grand Rapids is growing as fast as the country and faster than the rest of the state. The lost district will come from the Detroit area.
They will want to recreate a second black seat in Detroit. If they can knock off Tlaib in the primary, they will want to make it more solidly black. It will be easy to argue before the commission that existing districts are not compact. They will argue that Flint and Ann Arbor are distinct from Detroit. That means MI-8, MI-9, and MI-11 get realigned.
It’s not hard to gerrymander any district. Districts can be drawn to include portions of separate cities along with suburbs and countryside in between them. Some put Gerry’s original salamander shaped district which gave the gerrymander its name to shame. Some are contiguous only in theory, connecting at a single uninhabited point. There’s very little limit to the games legislatures can play with the shaping of district lines.
See the pending MD USA Rep gerrymander case in SCOTUS.
The JUNK MORON *lawyers* and SCOTUS MORONS are too evil STUPID / RETARDED to detect gerrymander 000001 math since 1962-1964 —
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged districts = 1/4 or less CONTROL.
PR and AppV
@DR,
In Maryland, there is not enough population for either a western district, or an Eastern Shore district.
@BF,
You did not bother to look at a map of Michigan did you?
p.s. salamanders don’t have wings.
@CO,
Who would eliminate Amash”s district? What would be their motivation?
I think that only someone who has spent a number of years in the Libertarian party should seek it’s presidential nomination. Let prominent Republicans or Democrats run for the House of Representatives or the Senate as Libertarians first. Only then would I consider such a person for the Libertarian presidential nomination.
The 14-2 USA Census is ONLY for
1. USA Reps among States and
2. USA *direct* taxes.
The 1964 SCOTUS math MORONS invented population for gerrymander districts INSIDE the States.
Voters vote — NOT populations — having kids and legal foreigners.
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See gerrymander districts inside NC — pack and crack computers at work.
How soon before dis-connected districts ???
— much easier to pack
— esp urban RED communist ghetto areas — 90 (repeat 90) plus percent Donkeys.
JR- I did a search on eliminating Justin Amash and several articles came up.
Amash lives southeast of Grand Rapids outside of city limits. It would be very easy to draw the lines so that he is no longer in a district centered on Grand Rapids. The motivation would be to get Amash out because he routinely criticizes both his own party and the president and in doing so has developed a national following(the very reason he is being talked about as a potential LP candidate) in part for doing just that.
In 2012 eight incumbent House members lost primaries to another incumbent. Two examples are particularly notable for this discussion. Hansen Clarke lost to Gary Peters in the 14th district in Michigan, so it happens in that state. And Dennis Kucinich was drawn out of Ohio’s 10th district and into the 9th, where he lost to Rep. Mary Kaptur. Kucinich, of course, was a critic of his own party just as Amash is of his.
@CO,
What were your search terms (and engine)?
All I can find when I use the word “eliminate” are things that Amash wants to eliminate: straight ticket voting, the NSA, and the Department of Education.
@CP,
Who would be the agent of this change?
Peters and Clarke were both incumbent representatives in 2012. Michigan was losing a seat. Peters was a target since he was white, and the more northern parts of his district would vote Republican. They paired him with Sander Levin. Peters ran instead against Clarke, in a district that was likely designed to get tid of Clarke, who ran outside his home district to avoid John Conyers.
But these conditions don”t exist in Amash’s district. It may be impossible to create a Democratic seat in western Michigan, while in the east it is relatively easy to create uber-Democratic seats, making it posible for Republicans to win more competitive districts.
Amash has rubbed his fellow Republicans the wrong way on numerous issues, in particular being routinely very critical of Trump. If Trump is re-elected it would be shocking if a vocal intra-party critic in the House wasn’t targeted through redistricting. But rather than creating a Democrat district it seems to me that they’d just put Amash against Huizenga or Moolenar while creating an opportunity for some other Republican to become a freshman Congressman.
JR- I believe I used Ask or perhaps Google. I simply asked the question… is Justin Amash being gerrymandered out of Congress?