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Gerrymandering is wrong everywhere, not just Maryland

Commentary By: Colin Pascal

From left, Maryland House Minority Leader Jason Buckel, Senate Minority Leader Stephen Hershey, House Minority Whip Jesse Pippy and Senate Minority Whip Justin Ready present the Republican response to Governor Wes Moore’s redistricting plans in the Miller Senate Building Media Center. (Kim Hairston/staff)
From left, Maryland House Minority Leader Jason Buckel, Senate Minority Leader Stephen Hershey, House Minority Whip Jesse Pippy and Senate Minority Whip Justin Ready present the Republican response to Governor Wes Moore’s redistricting plans in the Miller Senate Building Media Center. (Kim Hairston/staff)

“At the very moment that Gov. Wes Moore is leaning into partisanship and alienating centrist voters, Maryland Republicans are missing an opportunity to strengthen their case against his plan to gerrymander the state’s last Republican-held congressional district out of existence. When asked about it directly, Senate Minority Whip Justin Ready refused to condemn partisan gerrymandering in Republican-led states. This undermined his moral case against redistricting in Maryland and came across as another politician who lacked a clear sense of right and wrong. Partisan gerrymandering is never acceptable, and that should be one of the easiest things for a politician to say…”


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