Twists and turns

The nasty guy is touring Asia. Air Force 1 stopped in Hawaii along the way. A protester held a sign, “Aloha POTUS! Welcome to Kenya.”



I’ve written many times about gerrymandering and I’m active in a campaign in Michigan to end it (I’m doing a presentation on it tomorrow). But how to draw attention to the issue without eyes glazing over? Jeremy Loeb of Blue Ridge Public Radio in a report for NPR reported on one idea.

North Carolina is highly gerrymandered. The state is nominally a swing state, but the GOP got 10 of 13 congressional seats. One way they did it is to carve up the Democratic stronghold of Asheville so both pieces are overwhelmed by the GOP leaning voters around it.

The local League of Women Voters organized the Gerrymander 5K, a run (or walk) through the city on the line that divides the two districts. One of the runners said afterward, “I’ve never gone on a race with so many twists and turns.”