Hope that DL is paying me and all of our contributors time and a half today.
The Senate maps are virtually impossible to read. But the Senate has thrown everyone a curve. They retain Senate District 3 (Marshall) and Senate District 12 (Connor), with Connor’s district taking on a V-shape, they combine SD’s 6 and 8 (Sorenson and Sokola), and they create a new SD 6 in the coastal Sussex County area.
As of now, there are no district maps to look at, just county and city maps, here. Frankly, they’re a mess.
Harris McDowell’s 1st District will now run all the way from the City north to the Delaware state line. Simply unbelievable.
Dori Connor’s 12th District has an utterly insane V-shape.
The 3rd picks up most of its numbers from McDowell, including ‘The Flats’.
The 5th has been crafted to be much more favorable to Cathy Cloutier, her D deficit cut in half.
Piggish Patti Blevins gets a 2-1 D edge while her neighbor Dave Sokola gets tossed in with Liane Sorenson. As always, Patti Blevins exercising ‘leadership’ on her own behalf.
And to top it off, only 16 districts show up on the sheet with all the demographic data.
Headed off to the Queen for tonight’s shows, so no time to comment more, but this is an awful plan, poorly executed and presented.