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Sour grapes

To the editor:

In the 8-20-20 edition of the DMG, the headline story was about how disappointed three republican representatives from the U.P. were about not getting any people from the U.P. on Michigan’s new Redistricting Commission.

Why does it matter what part of the state the people on the commission come from?

They are not on the commission to draw lines in their neighborhood or county or even the U.P. They are there to redistrict the whole state fairly.

Nobody on the commission was appointed because of where they live. They were appointed to make redistricting fair.

If you start appointing people by where they live, it just defeats the purpose of making the process fair. You end up with people with an agenda.

These Republicans sound like they have sour grapes because they can’t gerrymander the state anymore.

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