From the PATRIOT-NEWS Op-ed:
The biggest political power- play of the decade is unfolding right now in Harrisburg and it is, perhaps, the most self-serving and least transparent process of state government. It is known as reapportionment or redistricting…
The 2011 poster child for the abuse of voters’ rights to fair elections is manifested in central Pennsylvania’s 15th Senatorial District. Currently, the district encompasses Harrisburg and its suburbs east of the Susquehanna River plus a small adjacent section of York County. But in an attempt to protect an embattled incumbent senator, the commission created a new district that eliminates troublesome Harrisburg constituents.
Instead of being contained almost entirely in a compact Dauphin County region, the new 15th District snakes through Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry, York and Adams counties creating a 150-mile horseshoe that dismantles any sense of community. The plan has been opposed by public officials throughout the five-county gerrymander…
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