Gary Peters vs Hansen Clarke vs Brenda Lawrence vs Mary Waters

**antongast** · April-25-12, 06:02 PM

I'm happy with Hansen Clarke as my congressman, and would gladly vote for him again, but it looks like I've been drawn out of his district.

**Wesley Mouch** · April-25-12, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by antongast

I'm happy with Hansen Clarke as my congressman, and would gladly vote for him again, but it looks like I've been drawn out of his district.

Locally, state-wide, and nationally -- redistricting needs to de-politicized. Needs to be just random in some manner.

**antongast** · April-25-12, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch

Locally, state-wide, and nationally -- redistricting needs to de-politicized. Needs to be just random in some manner.

Truth.....

**MikeyinBrooklyn** · April-27-12, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch

Locally, state-wide, and nationally -- redistricting needs to de-politicized. Needs to be just random in some manner.

If I made the rules, I would make political districts blindly with a goal of being as physically compact as possibe. By blindly, I mean use strictly Census data on population. No regard for race, politcal party registration, economics, etc. When you take anything beyond population into account, you open up arguments [[some with merit)- endless arguments- about why certain people should be or should not be grouped together. The average US Congressional district's population is +/- 700K. That's the population of Detroit. Our whole city should be a contiguous district.