The Greensboro City Council unanimously approved the Citizens’ Redistricting Committee without knowing who is on that committee.
At the Tuesday, Aug. 31 meeting the City Council approved the seven-member redistricting committee knowing the race and gender of the appointees but nothing else about them. It may be the first time the City Council has ever appointed a committee not knowing the name of a single member.
Mac McCarley, an attorney with Parker Poe who has been hired by the City Council to oversee the redistricting process, said that the seven-member committee was made up of two white females, two black males, one black female, one Latina female and one white male.
At the work session on Aug. 26 several city councilmembers objected when they were told that the six people who had been appointed so far included three black males, two white females and one white male.
Mayor Nancy Vaughan said about the proposed committee, “That reflects the demographics of the city much better.”
The seven organizations that appointed one member each to the the Citizens’ Redistricting Committee are the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad, the Greensboro Neighborhood Congress, the Greensboro Chapter of the NAACP, the George C. Simkins Jr. Political Action Committee, the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition (TREBIC) and the Greensboro International Advisory Committee.
McCarley said that his plan called for the committee to meet four times and at the fourth meeting to approve a redistricting map to present to the City Council. He noted that they were working under a tight time frame. The state law establishing the municipal redistricting process for the 2022 elections requires that the new maps be presented to the boards of elections by Nov. 19.
Councilmember Justin Outling said that he thought it was important to note that “This committee will come back to the City Council with a recommendation and ultimately it will be the City Council that makes the decision.”
The City Council is under no obligation to approve the map that the committee presents and could take the committee’s map and tweak it, or throw it out all together and draw its own map.
Councilmember Sharon Hightower asked if a citizen could present a map.
McCarley said that it is a frequent occurrence for citizens to present their own maps during the redistricting process and that any map presented to the committee would be analyzed and considered.
The meetings of the Citizens’ Redistricting Committee will be open to the public.
What total kabuki theater. Elections can’t get here soon enough. Mandate Mayor has moved our fair city into dangerous laughingstock. Greensboros council is a sad punchline in a progressive autocratic distopia.
It’s all about the votes from east Greensboro, and everyone on the council knows it. Why not let each council member select one person from their current district without regard to sex (er um. . .gender), race, age, wealth, etc.
The apogee of identity politics.
It doesn’t matter who you are; what matters is only your race and sex.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not only by the color of their skin but also by the arrangement of their genitals”…. This is where the Left is today.
Sickening.
Sigh. Do qualifications ever matter?
Speaking of Socialist govt ineptitude and purpose, I noticed a photograph of an exodus of a small town near Lake Tahoe, CA. Lots of cars & trucks backed up to get out of town on a 2-lane city street. To the right of the photo, appeared a gas stations sign with the price: $5.19/gal. That’s right $5.19/gal for reg gas, the wholesale price of which hovers around $2.09/gal. In addition to the Federal gas tax, Californians pay at least $1.21/gal in direct taxes, not to mention to business taxes & regulations, and cost of delivery. Fewer and fewer residents can even afford to buy gas. Californians have the highest personal income taxes in the U.S., perhaps soon to be eclipsed by HI.
That is what a Socialist govt does, impoverish everyone, make everyone dependent on the State. Bernie Sanders sez to tax the rich for their “fair share”. The rich pay stunning amounts of taxes. The spending programs Sen. Sanders wants cannot be financed, even by confiscation, all the wealth of the top 1%., much less cover the budget.
Here in NC, the NC state tax is $.2455/gal, plus $.184/gal Federal tax – totaling $.4259/gal. Add to that the cost of delivering the gas to the station, you see there is very little left for the gas station. The national GROSS profit for the gas station nationally averages less than 9%. They have to make their profit on the stuff you buy inside. In NC, gas is a real bargain. In many places, a gallon milk produced locally costs more.
How is all this financed? Money printing. Look at any commodity chart for all the things we use. From corn to coal. Note the increase of prices, just for this year.
Why not base all elections on the color and sex of the persons. Who needs qualifications? This should be illegal!
one little two little three little-Oh, no Indians. Is choosing by demographic better than choosing wisely?
Moving is an option.