Morris News on the redistricting maps. -- Perdue says top Republicans staying out of it for now.
Some excerpts from a 2-16-05 Morris News Service article by Brandon Larrabee and Brian Basinger:
Voters in the Athens area could wind up with a new representative in Congress as a result of a proposals made public Tuesday.
GOP leaders said they expected a long fight over the maps, which would radically shift the boundaries of the districts represented by the state's 13 members of Congress.
The current map's 12th District stretches from Athens in the north to Savannah in the south and includes Augusta.
Under the House maps, Clarke County would be split in two, with the northern portion of the county falling into a 10th District that stretches from Dade County in the west to Elbert County in the east. The 10th would include Jackson, Madison and Banks counties. Southern Clarke County would go into the 9th District along with Oconee, Greene and Oglethorpe; the district would extend through Augusta into Screven County in the southeast. Barrow County would end up in the 7th District along with Gwinnett.
The Senate plan would draw all of Clarke County into a new 9th, which begins in Towns County on the Tennessee border and runs down through Augusta in the southeast and Putnam County on the southwest. Jackson and Barrow would fall into the 10th, which would then run north to the Tennessee border and to Dade in the east.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Sonny Perdue said he hoped any new maps would be fair but that the state's top Republican planned to stay out of the fracas for now.
Both the House and Senate versions of the map would include two majority-black districts, the same number created by the 2001 plans.
Some rural Democrats said they didn't see anything overtly partisan in the maps unveiled Tuesday.
Voters in the Athens area could wind up with a new representative in Congress as a result of a proposals made public Tuesday.
GOP leaders said they expected a long fight over the maps, which would radically shift the boundaries of the districts represented by the state's 13 members of Congress.
The current map's 12th District stretches from Athens in the north to Savannah in the south and includes Augusta.
Under the House maps, Clarke County would be split in two, with the northern portion of the county falling into a 10th District that stretches from Dade County in the west to Elbert County in the east. The 10th would include Jackson, Madison and Banks counties. Southern Clarke County would go into the 9th District along with Oconee, Greene and Oglethorpe; the district would extend through Augusta into Screven County in the southeast. Barrow County would end up in the 7th District along with Gwinnett.
The Senate plan would draw all of Clarke County into a new 9th, which begins in Towns County on the Tennessee border and runs down through Augusta in the southeast and Putnam County on the southwest. Jackson and Barrow would fall into the 10th, which would then run north to the Tennessee border and to Dade in the east.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Sonny Perdue said he hoped any new maps would be fair but that the state's top Republican planned to stay out of the fracas for now.
Both the House and Senate versions of the map would include two majority-black districts, the same number created by the 2001 plans.
Some rural Democrats said they didn't see anything overtly partisan in the maps unveiled Tuesday.
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