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Not Buyin’ It

By Kleinheider Posted on July 10, 2009 at 9:52 am

Rep. Stacey Campfield isn’t buying that Rep. John Tanner’s interest in redistricting reform is devoid of self-interest:

Where was the urgency when he was in the state legislature? Did Tanner send in articles to the paper then? Did Tanner vote against his district being drawn for him? Did he vote against Republicans being lumped together in one district? Did he think districts should be drawn by a non biased system or that the system was not fair then?

Seems not.

Currently their are computer systems available that will re draw district lines based on a mathematical formulas. Not partisanship. If he were to push that he would have some small sliver of newly found credibility. Though mentioned in his article, he does not want or advocate going to a non biased computer system at all. He just wants to get it to DC where he can have his friends redraw it for him.

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10 Responses to “Not Buyin’ It”

  1. TennRod writes
    July 10th, 2009 10:09 am

    Tanner has been advocating this and sponsoring the same bill for many years. Stacey Campfield is an embarrasing hack.

  2. JohnnyC writes
    July 10th, 2009 10:25 am

    Whatever happened with that TNGOP plan to popularly elect the Secretary of State and Attorney General? I don’t remember hearing a peep about that after the 2008 elections.

  3. The Rep. writes
    July 10th, 2009 10:28 am

    Yee he has, and it is a self serving piece of garbage. Not an attempt to make a fair system.

  4. The Rep. writes
    July 10th, 2009 10:30 am

    If I recall it died when AG was added to the mix.

  5. JohnnyC writes
    July 10th, 2009 10:38 am

    Some might say it died when the GOP actually got the authority to appoint the positions after the Senate and House gains in 2008. That’s as fair an argument as yours against Tanner.

  6. The Rep. writes
    July 10th, 2009 11:35 am

    As I recall most Republicans including the Lt. gov were for it when the A.G was added. That would make it bi partisan, as to both parties would be giving up set positions based on appointment. When the dems realized they might have to give up some as well it fell apart. They were only willing to give when someone had to do the giveing.

  7. Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator writes
    July 10th, 2009 11:41 am

    Tanner has been pushing his bill for quite a while before Republicans took over in the State House and State Senate. Regardless of any self-interest any politician has now, it’s nonetheless a good idea to take partisan hacks out of the redistricting process.

    For the most part, redistricting is nowadays merely an effort to rig elections. Republican and Democratic hacks love it when it suits their purposes.

  8. The Rep. writes
    July 10th, 2009 12:07 pm

    Agreed. I am sure he could see republican takeover coming a few years ago. What he is pushing just continues the same process in a new form, with different people in charge. Still Democrat partisans. It does not fix the problem. It just continues the old Democrat controlled system. A computer program would be most fair.

  9. Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator writes
    July 10th, 2009 2:27 pm

    You’re right about a computer program being most fair. When do you plan on pushing this issue?

    I’m sure some of your fellow GOPers are looking forward to a lot of gerrymandering for their own political purposes. It’s up to you to stop them.

  10. The Rep. writes
    July 10th, 2009 5:06 pm

    I am not the one complaining about the system. If he had such a huge problem with the unfairness of the system he should have done something while he was in power at the state level. Not just now that things are changing that don’t favor him.

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