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January 13, 2006
Athens' 9th Life
When Republicans took over the state Senate in 2002, one of their immediate priorities was redrawing the Senate boundaries. From February, 2003 until the court drawn maps were implemented in March, 2004, they proposed and/or voted on 8 different maps, all called Senate Fair X, where X was the number.
Now I know, you may be thinking how can there by 8 different fair maps in a period of a little over a year. And the answer would be that each successive map was more fair concerning the re-election prospects of the incumbent Republican Senators. But anyway...
On the 8 different maps, one thing was consistent: Each time Athens and Clarke County were kept whole in one Senate district. Which makes me wonder, if splitting Clarke County is the right thing to do and county leaders are craving two Senators, why didn't the fair Senate map drawers propose that back when they still thought Brian Kemp would be running for re-election as an incumbent? They had 8 chances to get it right, afterall.
Posted by Chris at January 13, 2006 02:19 PM
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Seriously. This is some serious crap. Even some of the Repubs are baffled at this one from the sound of it.
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at January 13, 2006 02:42 PM
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