Today is the last day for public comments on the newly drawn congressional districts, but the proposed maps have already sent the NY political world into chaos, pitting incumbents against one another and opening the door to a hypothetical Rep. de Blasio.
New Yorkers have an opportunity to weigh in on the process, but that ends Wednesday evening. Voters can make the case on why certain neighborhoods protected by the Voting Rights Act should stay together, something the special master appeared not to consider when he redrew the maps to be more contiguous.have touched off a political scrum, pitting long-standing Democratic allies against one another and opening up new districts with no natural incumbent.
Special master Jonathan Cervas, a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, glommed Manhattan's Upper West Side together with the Upper East Side in his proposed map, forcing two stalwarts of New York political power – Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler – to run against one another. In Brooklyn, a Bedford-Stuyvesant congressional district long-known as a bastion of Black political power first represented by Shirley Chisholm, has been sliced into two, potentially pushing Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clarke into competition.
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