{"id":5104,"date":"2011-11-23T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:13:53","slug":"morning-read-redistricting-woes-in-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/23\/morning-read-redistricting-woes-in-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Redistricting woes in the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111123\/NEWS03\/711239903\">Watertown Daily Times digs into the latest report from Citizens United<\/a> that highlights the widespread practice of gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are deliberately gaming the system in order to avoid serious election fights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate districts 47 and 48, represented by Republicans Joseph A.  Griffo and Patricia A. Ritchie, respectively, are two of the  least-populated districts in the state, drawn that way by the lawmakers  themselves to allow the state Senate GOP to magnify its clout by having  more districts in politically friendly areas.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly districts 118 and  122, represented respectively by Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell,  D-Theresa, and Kenneth D. Blankenbush, R-Black River, are significantly  overpopulated, an effort by Assembly Democrats to stuff more Republicans  into fewer Assembly districts, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a  coincidence or something that occurred by chance,\u201d said Alex Camarda of  Citizens Union, which released on Monday a lengthy report on the state\u2019s  process of redrawing its political boundaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Redistricting and gerrymandering are one of the big challenges to American democracy, a far bigger issue than voter fraud &#8212; and arguably as big a deal as big money influence &#8212; which have received more media play of late.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Will this report stir up some conversation about gerrymandering?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times digs into the latest report from Citizens United that highlights the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6550,20,4877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}