The political left’s latest frenzy focuses on redistricting of legislative seats. Democrats want to take away redistricting authority from state legislators.
Recently a group of protesters demonstrated at Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai’s home demanding that new districts be drawn by a nonpartisan group instead of state legislators (Aug. 13, “Turzai Hits Back at Protesters: Pa. House Speaker Says They Don’t Know Facts”). So how can these protesters claim to want to take politics out of redistricting when these protesters themselves are engaging in aggressive political activity? If politics is so bad, why are they participating in it?
Any attempt to put redistricting into the hands of an unelected commission contradicts their stated goal…
