Sunday, January 29, 2012

KENTUCKY REDISTRICTING RIDICULOUS

Every 10 years after a census states have to change their legislation districts as populations change. Kentucky recently proposed their changes. Both SpeakerGreg Stumbo(D) and Senate President David Williams (R) put thru new districts which are ridiculous. David Williams changed the district in Lexington so that State Senator Kathy Stein's old district ends up in Northern KY and the replacement is from 200 miles away. I am not a Kathy Stein fan but this is totally ridiculous. Speaker Stumbo on the other side redistricted so that in some cases two Republicans would have to fight each other for the new district. Talk about partisan politics. I was real disappointed that Governor Breshear signed the bill allowing both of these yahoos to do it. People in the legislature should represent the people in the district where they live. In my county they tried to split it up into four districts. Yes we are a faster growing county but to do things this way is totally irresponsible. The Kentucky Legislature only mirrors the Congress of the United States in partisan politics. Neither body seems to care or represent the people that vote them into office nor in general Americans.

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