{"id":3606,"date":"2005-02-24T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3606.html"},"modified":"2005-02-24T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T15:06:11","slug":"georgia-re-redistricting-did-the-gop-blink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/georgia-re-redistricting-did-the-gop-blink\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Re-redistricting &#8212; Did the GOP blink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of weeks, it seemed Georgia Republicans were salivating at the idea of ramming a re-redistricting plan through the state legislature, effectively throwing a couple of moderate House Dems out of work. Now, however, the same gang wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/1_1\/breakingnews\/8244-1.html\">slow things down a bit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans in the Georgia state House put off voting on their version of a new Congressional map Wednesday, amid cries from Democrats to halt the mid-decade effort to redraw boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>The state House Committee on Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment met Wednesday morning and was expected to pass a revised version of a map penned by panel chairman Bobby Franklin (R). But the vote was delayed, after Franklin said the public should have more time to comment on the new map. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted the public to have another chance to take a look at the map&#8221; Franklin told The Associated Press. &#8220;As soon as we feel it&#8217;s ready, and the committee is ready, we&#8217;ll be able to bring it forward.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Part of the problem is that Georgia Republicans haven&#8217;t finalized an approach among themselves. Still, a delay is a delay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also heard that some DC Republicans are grumbling at the prospect of a full blown re-redistricting war with Dems, which the Georgia scheme would invite and encourage. The ball&#8217;s in the Republicans&#8217; court, but if Georgia moves ahead with this nonsense, it could get real ugly, real fast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of weeks, it seemed Georgia Republicans were salivating at the idea of ramming a re-redistricting plan through the state legislature, effectively throwing a couple of moderate House Dems out of work. Now, however, the same gang wants to slow things down a bit. Republicans in the Georgia state House put off voting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}