Black delegate decides against Va. GOP map

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After a brief flirtation with the GOP’s surprise Virginia Senate redistricting plan, and a fierce backlash from unions, a black House Democrat has soured on supporting it.

Del. Onzlee Ware announced on the House floor Friday that he has decided to vote against the new Senate map, which would create a new majority-black district in Southside but also disperse black voting power in at least eight other districts.

He had said in an interview Wednesday that he was considering voting for it. His support would have provided Republicans with a measure of bipartisan support and helped to blunt criticism that they had pushed the proposed districts through the Senate in a way that was offensive to blacks.

The map would probably lead to the election of a sixth black senator but also diminish Democratic power in the now evenly divided Senate. Ware had said on Wednesday that he was open to the proposal because he was tired of putting the interests of black people second to the interests of the Democratic party.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/black-delegate-decides-against-va-gop-map/2013/02/02/da2b89a4-6cad-11e2-8740-9b58f43c191a_story.html

[graham4anything]

1. maybe the answer is, to get rid of districts and make it one state

I am normally against state rights anyhow as that is the single most outdated thing there is
(and has racist connotations anyhow)

but why have districts at all.

let's get rid of districts and one state, one vote and the # of reps are figured by the vote in the last election

after all there weren't a set number of seats in the house or assembly when the constitution was written
being that there were only a few states and not 50 of them