Virginia Redistricting PASSED!!
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I hate it and I love it at the same time. But since this tyrant-clown is hell-bent on fvkking with our democracy, it was necessary to let him know we will pull every lever to make it worse for him.
FAFO Mother F*****
FAFO Mother F*****
Michael Garrett - NC Senate
Tonight, I sat down in my living room, turned on the returns out of Virginia, and watched a state I love do something I have spent my entire political life fighting.
Virginia voted to gerrymander.
And I stood up and applauded.
That sentence should not exist in America.
No state should ever have to choose between surrender and a rigged map. No governor should ever have to sign lines she knows are bent. No legislature should ever have to redraw the representation of its own people for no reason other than that another state did it first.
But that is where we are.
Tonight, the people of Virginia looked at what Texas did. At what Missouri did. At what Ohio did. At what North Carolina did. And they refused to be the only adults left at a rigged table.
They voted yes.
And I applaud them.
I have spent my entire career fighting gerrymandering. In our community. In committee. In a speech on the Senate floor against a rigged congressional map, a speech my Republican colleagues erased the permanent record.
I believe one thing, above party, above tribe, above career.
The people choose their representatives.
Not the other way around.
That belief has not moved one inch tonight.
But the ground beneath it has.
A few months ago, the leaders of the North Carolina Senate called us back to Raleigh.
Not to pass a budget.
Not to fund our classrooms.
Not to help a single family still digging out from Helene.
We came back so a president could be handed the congressional seats he said he was owed.
Owed.
Read that word again.
In America, a president is owed nothing. Not a seat. Not a district. Not a vote. Not a single inch of deference beyond the narrow authority the Constitution grants him and the trust the people choose, every few years, to renew.
A president who believes he is entitled to anything other than competing, honestly, openly, in the light, for the public’s trust has already crossed a line the founders drew in blood.
When he orders his allies in state capitals to rig the game against the American people, to gerrymander accountability out of existence, to make the outcome of an election inevitable before a single citizen has walked into a single booth, he is not running a campaign anymore.
He is running from judgment.
And an American president who runs from the people’s judgment is not leading a democracy. He is running one over.
Here is the hard truth.
You do not end gerrymandering by gerrymandering. Not as a principle. Not as a first choice. Not as a long-term plan.
This disease only leaves our democracy when every state, every party, every mapmaker in every capitol puts down the pen together.
But in this moment, when only one side has been ordered by the most powerful man in the country to rig the game, when the cost of unilateral disarmament is the end of competitive elections for a generation, the only answer, the tragic answer, the one I wish to God we did not have to give, is to fight fire with fire.
Tonight, Virginia fought back.
Tonight, Virginia refused to burn alone.
If the blaze that spreads from this vote forces both parties to finally, finally put down the pen together, then maybe something real will rise out of the ashes.
I think about Jack and Charlotte every night.
I am not going to leave them a country where the map is drawn in a back room and the outcome of their vote is decided before they have learned the word ballot.
Valley Forge was not fought so a president could be handed seats.
Normandy was not stormed so district lines could be cut into the shape of one man’s ambition.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge was not crossed so the right to vote could be hollowed out from the inside by the very people sworn to protect it.
We owe those generations better.
We owe our children better.
We owe each other better.
So tonight, I applaud the people of Virginia.
And tomorrow, I stand ready, with any colleague of any party, from any state, to file a constitutional amendment banning partisan gerrymandering in all 50 states.
No more lines drawn to protect careers.
No more maps drawn to punish votes
.
No more presidents handed seats they have not earned.
Let them draw their maps.
We will draw the line.
Push.
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Tonight, I sat down in my living room, turned on the returns out of Virginia, and watched a state I love do something I have spent my entire political life fighting.
Virginia voted to gerrymander.
And I stood up and applauded.
That sentence should not exist in America.
No state should ever have to choose between surrender and a rigged map. No governor should ever have to sign lines she knows are bent. No legislature should ever have to redraw the representation of its own people for no reason other than that another state did it first.
But that is where we are.
Tonight, the people of Virginia looked at what Texas did. At what Missouri did. At what Ohio did. At what North Carolina did. And they refused to be the only adults left at a rigged table.
They voted yes.
And I applaud them.
I have spent my entire career fighting gerrymandering. In our community. In committee. In a speech on the Senate floor against a rigged congressional map, a speech my Republican colleagues erased the permanent record.
I believe one thing, above party, above tribe, above career.
The people choose their representatives.
Not the other way around.
That belief has not moved one inch tonight.
But the ground beneath it has.
A few months ago, the leaders of the North Carolina Senate called us back to Raleigh.
Not to pass a budget.
Not to fund our classrooms.
Not to help a single family still digging out from Helene.
We came back so a president could be handed the congressional seats he said he was owed.
Owed.
Read that word again.
In America, a president is owed nothing. Not a seat. Not a district. Not a vote. Not a single inch of deference beyond the narrow authority the Constitution grants him and the trust the people choose, every few years, to renew.
A president who believes he is entitled to anything other than competing, honestly, openly, in the light, for the public’s trust has already crossed a line the founders drew in blood.
When he orders his allies in state capitals to rig the game against the American people, to gerrymander accountability out of existence, to make the outcome of an election inevitable before a single citizen has walked into a single booth, he is not running a campaign anymore.
He is running from judgment.
And an American president who runs from the people’s judgment is not leading a democracy. He is running one over.
Here is the hard truth.
You do not end gerrymandering by gerrymandering. Not as a principle. Not as a first choice. Not as a long-term plan.
This disease only leaves our democracy when every state, every party, every mapmaker in every capitol puts down the pen together.
But in this moment, when only one side has been ordered by the most powerful man in the country to rig the game, when the cost of unilateral disarmament is the end of competitive elections for a generation, the only answer, the tragic answer, the one I wish to God we did not have to give, is to fight fire with fire.
Tonight, Virginia fought back.
Tonight, Virginia refused to burn alone.
If the blaze that spreads from this vote forces both parties to finally, finally put down the pen together, then maybe something real will rise out of the ashes.
I think about Jack and Charlotte every night.
I am not going to leave them a country where the map is drawn in a back room and the outcome of their vote is decided before they have learned the word ballot.
Valley Forge was not fought so a president could be handed seats.
Normandy was not stormed so district lines could be cut into the shape of one man’s ambition.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge was not crossed so the right to vote could be hollowed out from the inside by the very people sworn to protect it.
We owe those generations better.
We owe our children better.
We owe each other better.
So tonight, I applaud the people of Virginia.
And tomorrow, I stand ready, with any colleague of any party, from any state, to file a constitutional amendment banning partisan gerrymandering in all 50 states.
No more lines drawn to protect careers.
No more maps drawn to punish votes
.
No more presidents handed seats they have not earned.
Let them draw their maps.
We will draw the line.
Push.
Michael Garrett - NC Senate
Tonight, I sat down in my living room, turned on the returns out of Virginia, and watched a state I love do something I have spent my entire political life fighting. Virginia voted to gerrymander....
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Yeah it sucks that it came to this, but it's where we are.
Obama publicly stated he was against gerrymandering, as did the current governor of Virginia. Y'all are a bunch of hypocrites. You have no honor. What else is new. Spanberger specifically stated in October, she was against gerrymandering and had no plans to redraw the state's redistricting map. A liar, through and through.
Suck it. You did this.
F*ck around find out, b*tch
you stupid moron, don't whine when someone finishes something that you started.
Dude says he is disturbed by......wait for it..........Lying
Look at the, whatever the hell you are in your tough guy basement. Trump is your president *****.
Here we go, another fool who has no honesty. What I posted is factual. What you post is lies.
You support the biggest liar in American political history and you voted for him three times because you hate other human beings more than you love your country. Sit your rabid azz down.
Oh, look at the beta boy giving orders. Lmao. Get lost loser. You're a Socialist and a complete fraud.
“Over the long term, we shouldn’t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who’s got better ideas,” he began in a Wednesday post on X.
Barak Obama...
He's right, "we shouldn't have." But when you try to corruptly stack the deck to keep from being held accountable by the voters, you don't get to dictate that the other side must play by the rules. At least California and Virginia let the voters decide while Texas said F the voters, they would do what they wanted and nobody could stop them - did you complain? Democrats tried to pass a bill to restrict partisan gerrymandering and every Republican voted against it - were you outraged then?
You don't get to talk about hypocrites.
Sorry b*tch, what's good for the goose and all that....
Lmao at how clueless libs are on here. California redistricted the state in the 60's. Check out the Burton map in the 80's regarding California. Dems totally changed voting to their side.
Look at you posting Mr. Confederate flag boy, Rick Wilson. Are you waiting for reparations as well?
Most of me wants to see everyone act within the rules ... the rules embodied in our laws, and rules of common decency. But there is a tiny part of me that wants to see the Dems regain power in Congress and POTUS and do all the types of things that Trump & Co. have done over the last few years, and watch all the MAGAts' heads explode. Then again, if there is any justice, most MAGAts will be in jail by then ... or hiding from justice in North Korea and Russia.
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Like true fascists, they expect you to take it and not fight back. Fighting back offends them. Maga loves to rape people and society and they're about to find the **** out.
And TACO ran on being against America being involved in foreign wars - what’s your point?
If this passed without rampant fraud then it shows how far over the edge the average Democrat has become. This was put on the ballot as a temporary measure to restore fairness....wtf??? A 55 to 45 at best blue state will now redistrict with some insanely drawn districts to give democrats 90% of the congressional seats. This is not what TX was doing. The democrats are vastly out doing Republicans in the gerrymandering game. You libs have lost your noodles.
Just wait till scotus invalidates drawing race based districts here this year.
ITS NOT OVER!!!
Just wait till scotus invalidates drawing race based districts here this year.
ITS NOT OVER!!!
Accurate.
It's worth recapping just how many state laws Virginia Democrats violated in order to actually do this referendum.
They kept a special session open for two years, pushed it through with early voting already underway in last year's governor's race, and failed to publish it three months before an election.
They wrote an extremely misleading ballot question, also in violation of the law, that claimed creating a 10D-1R map was a "temporary measure" to "restore fairness," in order to influence a particular result.
And yet, a referendum passing by less than 5 points will allow them to create a 10D-1R map in a state that voted for Kamala by 6 points.
If only Republicans would use the power they gain to ruthlessly govern instead of lecturing us about 'norms and procedures.'
It's worth recapping just how many state laws Virginia Democrats violated in order to actually do this referendum.
They kept a special session open for two years, pushed it through with early voting already underway in last year's governor's race, and failed to publish it three months before an election.
They wrote an extremely misleading ballot question, also in violation of the law, that claimed creating a 10D-1R map was a "temporary measure" to "restore fairness," in order to influence a particular result.
And yet, a referendum passing by less than 5 points will allow them to create a 10D-1R map in a state that voted for Kamala by 6 points.
If only Republicans would use the power they gain to ruthlessly govern instead of lecturing us about 'norms and procedures.'
I don’t get it Growls, half the map is still red, are you telling me land doesn’t vote, people do?
Wow look at how they worded this to influence voters. Truly disgusting but not surprising. The Virginia redistricting amendment on the ballot today is framed as a vote to "restore fairness in the upcoming elections." Lying *** snakes.
Went from a 6D/5R representation to a 10D/1R representation because Virginia needed to “restore fairness in their elections”. So fairness in Virginia is gerrymandering districts for liberals. Good to know. I hope they have the same, easily predictable outcome as CA, MN, IL, WA, NY and the rest of those virtuous, tax heavy, fraud ridden garbage dumps. They deserve it.
Man, I never would’ve expected to see MAGA crying and outraged when dems did what pubs did in Texas (except they let the people vote on it, unlike in Texas).
I hate gerrymandering, but like MAGA has said for years, elections have consequences.
I hate gerrymandering, but like MAGA has said for years, elections have consequences.
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We know Republicans will cheat, dude. You don't have to announce it. Looks like you stayed up all night melting down about it. You okay?