Javier Manjarres is reporting that A llen West has announced that he is switching Congressional districts , from FL-22 ( which was drawn to doom him ) to FL-16. I don’t know the particulars of that district since it has been redrawn but it used to be one of the safest GOP seats in the country (and is now infamous for having two consecutive congressmen resign in disgrace in the face of criminal probes). Too early to tell whether West will face a serious primary challenge as the current incumbent is also moving to another district. Meanwhile, the question of who was responsible for turning FL-22 into a Democrat sinkhole continues to swirl. I’ve had folks who are involved in Florida politics tell me that Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolous was responsible as payback for West refusing to support Haridopolous in his abortive United States Senate bid, or for one imagined slight or the other. Haridopolous, for his point, insists that the maps were basically required to be drawn that way due to a new FLorida law designed to prevent gerrymandering of districts. Allegedly, however, other district maps were proposed and rejected which would not have been quite as injurious to West’s chances in FL-22. At this point, it is difficult to know what to believe. It seems likely, however, that unless the composition of FL-16 has changed remarkably in the redistricting process that West has a better chance of winning a primary and the general than he did in winning the original FL-22, which was always going to be a very tough fight. It’s too early to celebrate yet but it looks like there’s a good chance that West will be around and kicking for a while longer yet.
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And yet the Occupy protests themselves have been 99% white. Via WaPo: As the nation observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant was outside the Federal Reserve’s headquarters in the District, protesting. And at the public radio station WPFW (89.3 FM), the Rev. Graylan S. Hagler used his airtime Monday to note
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No, not from The Onion. DRAPER, Utah (CBS Las Vegas) — One Utah school district believes a cougar mascot would be insensitive to women. The Canyons School District overrode the students top choice of a cougar mascot for their high school that is to be completed in 2013. Would-be Corner Canyon High School students chose
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Come, I will conceal nothing from you: the Ricky Gill campaign is busily bringing up the odd detail that his likely opponent for CA-09 – Rep. Jerry McNerney, who was essentially accused by ProPublica last month of having that district redrawn for his benefit – has not yet moved into CA-09 . Given that McNerney’s been putting this move off since at least last July , I think that this is a perfectly reasonable observation of the Ricky Gill campaign to make. I understand that redistricting can make for temporary confusion and delay until things straighten out again, but at this point failing to find a new place to live in the district that you want to represents a certain lack of, ah, drive *. As you probably recall, we interviewed Ricky last month at RedState . Check out the interview. Moe Lane ( crosspost ) *We will now pause while Democrats search frantically for any Republican legislator from the last thirty years who did not instantly relocate his or her primary residence because of redistricting. Alas for them, it’s not really unlikely that any hypothetical GOP legislator had gone through the trouble of (allegedly) designing their district first . In other words: shenanigans are one thing, but sloppy , ill-planned shenanigans? That’s kind of… embarrassing, no?
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Jerry McNerney (D, CA) can’t find an in-district place to live?
Hopefully the GOP sticks to its guns and doesn’t let the Dems strip the rider out of the final bill. Personally, I’m not holding my breath. Via Roll Call: The District of Columbia will not be able to provide locally or federally funded abortions through fiscal 2012 if a policy rider currently included in House
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