WE HAVE A SENATE DEAL!
By Shaun Kenney | Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 | PoliticsWord is that the Virginia Senate has brokered a compromise plan on redistricting. No word on the details… but we’ll post them as they come forward.
UPDATE: Tyler Whitney with the RTD has more information:
Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Fauquier County, one of the negotiators,cautioned that the deal still could blow up and that Senate Democratic and Republican caucuses are being briefed this afternoon. A meeting of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee has tentatively been scheduled for Thursday morning and the full Senate could vote as early as Thursday.
Under the deal, the proposed new Democratic-leaning district in the Richmond area would be eliminated, according to Sen. John Watkins, R-Powhatan. Republicans would lose one of two senators in Virginia Beach and new districts would be created in Loudoun County and east of Lynchburg.
A map should be forthcoming shortly.
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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7 Responses to "WE HAVE A SENATE DEAL!"
It must have been one hellva deal for the Republicans because Lowell Feld over at Violet Virginia is having a hissy fit.
shaun, thanks for this. please post maps as soon as you get them.
HisRoc, Agree Mr. Feld is going overboard. He ignores that brokering a deal is the smartest thing Sen. Saslaw could have done. Letting thee Courts draw the lines would definitely not have helped the Dems maintain a majority in the Senate. Any objectively compact plan would cram democratic votes into urban districts and dilute Democratic strength throughout the rest of Virginia.
Now, my question is this: will the deal mean that the Moran Democrats won’t be able to usher Ben Tribbett into the VA-31 seat instead of Saslaw’s hand-picked candidate? Will the Republican-leaning people of eastern Loudoun County have a Republican state Senator instead of a geeky liberal blogger in running shoes?
Inquiring minds want to know, but I’m sure that I am 99.86% accurate.
“Violet Virginia”. I get it. It’s a funny insult because it sounds gay. Whew, good times.
Doesn’t sound like Dems cut a very good deal. Loudoun County I can certainly understand, but population warrants a new district “east of Lynchburg?” It will have to run pretty far east to pick up enough voters to make a Senate district.
Sound like the dems take out one Republican in Va. Beach, bringing the Republicans to 17, then create two seats Republicans can win bringing them up to 19. A 21-19 map doesn’t give Democrats much margin for error this fall.
Donald,
On the electromagnet visible light spectrum, violet is farther to the left than blue. It also has more energy than blue but a shorter wavelength. In other words, it is highly excited particles ricocheting about with no logical pattern. Get it?
BTW, my wife and I have good friends who are gay and we would never insult them by calling a bunch of mouth-breathing, drooling moron liberals “gay.”
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