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fadedrose

(10,044 posts) Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:51 AM Oct 2013

"gerrymandered mental asylum"

I live in one of those. Candace Miller became our rep after Gov. Iforgetwho gerrymandered us and we lost David Bonior, a former speaker of the house. He was good.

One of the tv programs on msnbc explained how these things are formed...some are a crooked circle around a large city, etc., suberbs, where Dems live but don't have a chance of winning.

Thanks to BluegrassStateBlues for giving us this phrase.

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"gerrymandered mental asylum" (Original Post) fadedrose Oct 2013 OP

The last redraw of the districts here in Metro Detroit simply blew my mind. Denninmi Oct 2013 #1

Denninmi

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1. The last redraw of the districts here in Metro Detroit simply blew my mind.

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Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:55 AM

Oct 2013

Blatant gerrymandering, but of course I knew they would get away with it, holding all 3 branches in Lansing as they do.

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