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| New district maps for NC Senate, proposed in S 758. Dist. 47, which includes Watauga, sends Ralph Hise to Raleigh |
Ralph Hise's "local bill" completely upending the structure of the Watauga County Commission -- evidently to give Republicans a guaranteed (or nearly) advantage in three of five new commissioner districts -- is now moving in the General Assembly.
What Used To Be: Every voter in Watauga County got to vote in all county commish races. Didn't matter where the voter lived. Did matter where the candidate lived, because each of Watauga's 5 districts demanded residency for the candidate. But any voter in, say, Beaver Dam, could also vote for any commissioner candidate representing far off Stony Fork.
What Will Happen Under Hise's Local Bill: There will be five new geographical districts. The only map I've seen is this one, annoyingly devoid of place labels and lines. Hise has presented no map, only population "blocks" under the Census, which can actually be reconstructed into a map. It's clear enough that Boone (deep blue) has been segregated into a single district. Three new, large, and largely rural districts will ring Boone and pretty much guarantee a perpetual 3-man Republican majority on the commish.
So, We Get It. Hise has power. Some might claim absolute power. He'll probably get this bill through, and it'll be another notch on Trump-era belts (but to us-ens a grotesque abuse of any understanding of democracy, of how a republic is supposed to govern itself). But we get it. We do get it. We're all naked apes, potentially, and why pass up the opportunity to pound your enemy into dirt and eat his cake?
14 comments:
Well, GOOD!
As a rural Watauga County resident I and most people I know are tired of Boone dominating local politics with their leftist ideology.
Uh. One person one vote. This proposal violates that.
One person, one vote equals mob rule.
Not sure I follow that logic, but are you suggesting that minority rule is the better alternative?
"As a rural Watauga County resident I and most people I know are tired of Boone dominating local politics with their leftist ideology."
What are you talking about??
No. Democracy isn't concerned with minority rights, only the power of the majority.
Five wolves and a sheep voting what's for dinner isn't how folks should live.
So the sheep choses their meal and also what the 5 wolves are going to eat?
Typical lefty obfuscation.
They should ALL be equal with all having the same rights.
Dems like democracy because it allows them to loot other people's money, restrict their freedoms and control their lives.
I am for the districts but you can complain about the rural folks all you want. Even without the students this County is still purple so the division if you went this route should have been to make a fair distribution not a clearly gerrymandered situation. Just shows that they know they can't beat the Democrats in a fair fight.
"Dems like democracy because...".
What would you prefer as a replacement for democracy? What would make you happiest?
A representative, Constitutional Republic, which is what the government was created as.
Not a biggest mob grabs all like we have now.
How would representatives be chosen without an election?
More lefty idiocy.
Read the fucking Constitution.
Damn!
"One person, one vote equals mob rule."
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