Maryland Conservative Petitions: Conservative Activism at its Best

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 16th at 11:00 AM  | 

Maryland is such a liberal stronghold that Democrats could not possibly lose power, even if they tried their hardest to receive the pink slip from voters in the state.  According to Gallup, Democrats in Maryland enjoy a greater party ID advantage over Republicans than in any other state.  Yet a committed group of conservatives, led by freshman Delegate Neil Parrott(R-Hagerstown), have successfully spearheaded three petition | Read More »

Darcy Burner: Bringing The Crazy to the WA-01 Election!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 9th at 11:30 AM  | 

I had heard that Darcy Burner – best known for being a Democrat who couldn’t beat a Republican in Washington state during the two worst election cycles for Republicans in living memory – spoke yesterday at Netroots Nation in Providence, RI (I happen to be in town myself for the much cooler Breitbart Awards conference that the Franklin Center/the Heritage Foundation is putting on). Feeling | Read More »

Cook: State Republican parties gave national GOP 9 seats for 2012.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 15th at 03:30 PM  | 

Cook Political Report has more or less formalized their 2012 redistricting scorecard; their final score is a gain of one Republican seat, based solely on redistricting. Cook notes that this total actually represents about 10 to 15 seats being fortified for the GOP, given that the majority of legislators who benefited from redistricting were Republicans. This will no doubt infuriate Democrats, but then: elections matter. | Read More »

Ann Marie Buerkle on Redistricting, Obamacare and Jobs

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  March 15th at 10:12 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle to discuss New York’s redistricting plan, repealing Obamacare and how we can get America back to work. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do | Read More »

The fix is in on NY *state* redistricting?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 14th at 10:00 PM  | 

I dunno. They’re certainly scurrying around like… things that scurry… in Albany tonight. This report suggests that the fix is in for the state legislature, and that Governor Cuomo is going to cave on his promise to support reform today, in exchange for promises of reform tomorrow; but it also suggests that the NY legislature has decided to let the courts design the Congressional maps, | Read More »

The THREATENED NY Congressional District map.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 13th at 08:00 PM  | 

I say “threatened” because if the NY state legislature doesn’t come to a deal by Wednesday, this is the map that is very likely going to be the one to get used: …and there’s going to be several Members of Congress who will be very unhappy if that happens. Including Steve Israel of the DCCC.

The Great Texas Redistricting Nonsense has been resolved.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 4th at 01:00 PM  | 

Some background, for those who need it: Texas, thanks to explosive growth over the last ten years, picked up four Congressional Districts after the last Census.  The Democrats, who are (naturally enough, I suppose) angry that this growth has been at the expense of their own caucus (the 2010 Census generally demonstrated that a lot of people have been voting with their feet on this | Read More »

The Battle Over Redistricting, and the Passing of Andrew Breitbart

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  March 1st at 11:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Aaron Blake to discuss the fallout from the Michigan primary and the latest on the battle over redistricting. We’ll also mourn the passing of conservative media icon, and supporter of Coffee and Markets, Andrew Breitbart. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment | Read More »

NY redistricting may end in Gary Ackerman (D, NY) cutting and running?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 28th at 08:30 PM  | 

OK, here’s the background: NY is losing two seats in Congress, thanks to the 2010 Census. Well, more accurately, thanks to the urban blue model of governance that has had folks fleeing those urban areas in droves – but never mind that now. As has been noted previously, the New York legislature is having a devil of a time coming up with a map that | Read More »

The Great New York Redistricting Headache.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 14th at 10:15 PM  | 

So, we’re having ourselves a situation in New York with redistricting. The basics: New York, like many blue states that have been blue states for a while, has seen its population ratio to the rest of the country drop sufficiently that it’s losing two Congressional Districts this cycle. So they’re all trying to figure out how to redraw the map for an optimal destroy-your-enemies approach: | Read More »

RS at CPAC: Ted Cruz (R CAND, TX-SEN PRI).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 12th at 06:30 PM  | 

Ted Cruz is an old friend of RedState, of course: so we made sure to spend a couple of minutes talking about the race, how the ongoing redistricting dispute in Texas is making everybody’s elections difficult, and about CPAC generally.  And if you’re wondering why a Texas federal Senate race would be affected by redistricting, it’s because nobody really wants to have three primary dates | Read More »

Closing arguments in the TX redistricting case today.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 1st at 11:30 PM  | 

And I wish that I had been there to see both the Democrats and the three-person judicial panel bug their eyes out at Texas’s lawyer when he calmly pointed out that any hypothetical screwing over of minority Democrats when it came to redistricting took place not because they were minorities, but because they were Democrats. I don’t know if that argument’s going to actually fly | Read More »

RS Interview: Michael Williams (R CAND, TX-…25?)

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 24th at 04:00 PM  | 

Sorry about the sound quality: we’re in the middle of a solar storm today, remember? At any rate, I talked this afternoon with Michael Williams, who is running in TX-25, assuming of course that the courts d0n’t decide to fold up the new Congressional maps for Texas into a variety of paper airplanes and fly them out of the window. The short version is: the | Read More »

Supreme Court smacks lower courts in TX redistricting case.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 20th at 11:30 AM  | 

Details here and here: the short version is that the USSC decided that a lower court erred because it had, to quote the New York Times, “not paid enough deference to the Legislature’s choices and had improperly substituted its own values for those of elected officials.” The underlying issue is that there is an ongoing dispute over how the new Texas federal Congressional map should | Read More »

Maurice Hinchey (D, NY-22) …to retire.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 18th at 11:00 PM  | 

Yeah, normally I categorize this sort of thing as ‘cutting and running,’ but the man just fought off colon cancer. That stuff is nasty and even I have limits to my dearth of sympathy towards Democratic legislators. Anyway… NY-22 is currently D+6, but who knows what will happen after the next redistricting? …Actually, according to Ed Koch this is a – his words, not mine | Read More »