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June 6th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
Redistricting has always been a fairly dirty business, and it’s gotten really dirty now with the advent of very sophisticated computer programs that can pretty much guarantee results. IIRC, there is a proposal floating around to get redistricting into the hands of a non-partisan commission, but it has been poorly received by the legislature. How surprising!
Anyway, Finneran cooked his own stupid goose on this one. I think what DeLay did in Texas was a lot worse (not least because it was “re-redistricting,” i.e., done not to reflect the census but solely to fix the results), but the Finneran map wasn’t so great either, and if he really did fib about his involvement in it, that was a really dumb move.
June 6th, 2005 at 11:11 pm
Those who exercise power arrogantly are bound to fall by that same arrogance…at least, that’s the way the universe is supposed to work.
June 7th, 2005 at 12:37 pm
Actually, the Finneran map was the polar opposite of the DeLay map.
DeLay came out in the open and pushed a map that did a lot of crazy things to maximize Republican advantage in the Texas Congressional districts. Democrats were free to propose alternatives, but none of that mattered, because the Republicans had the votes (as long as they had a quorum, which is what the Democrats leaving the state was all about).
The map that was drawn up by Finneran allies was first and foremost a “protect the incumbents” map, with only one or two incumbents badly affected (most notoriously Rep. Cleven in Chelmsford, as that town got split into four districts). The map was drawn up in secret, which is where Finneran got in trouble, because he claimed that he wasn’t in on the secret discussions despite a paper trail showing otherwise.
So it’s still about arrogance, but a different kind of arrogance. DeLay’s is the arrogance of the majority rule (”I’ve got the votes, just try and stop me”). Finneran’s rule was that no one was really paying attention anyway, and that the House could pass something that no one really got the blame for.
June 7th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
Thanks for the education. I wasn’t living in the state at the time, so I heard about it sort of vaguely through NH lenses.
Thanks for the comment!