Politicans who aim to gerrymander our legislative districts count on voters to feel content with their invisibility in the process, writes columnist Leslie Kouba. We must not let them get away with it.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – First, thank you all for the good thoughts and well wishes. They worked!
This is exactly what happened with the Ohio Redistricting Commission. Earlier this week, the members unveiled hopelessly, as if voters are invisible and inconsequential. The proposed maps reveal flippant disregard for all Ohio voters, Republican and Democrat. Even though our supposed representatives all know gerrymandering is illegal in Ohio, and our Ohio Supreme Court has had to repeatedly tell them their redistricting maps are trash, wayward commission members don’t care. They want what they want.
Commission member and House Minority Leader Allison Russo called the whole process nothing but political angling, saying our districts were used as political pawns in a chess game between politicians striving to retain power. Her reminder to her fellow politicians was spot on – the districts don’t belong to politicians. They belong to us.
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