Dennis Tifft Bryant Neighborhood
From: "B. Shoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mpls forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mpls] re: Redistricting and the Settlement Offer Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:39:26 -0600
Barb,
Please keep in mind that the Settlement Map is meant to be an example, showing that it is possible to produce a ward map that (unlike the Disputed Map) conforms to the city charter and federal law and, as much as possible, meets a number of other criteria. The plaintiffs are not proposing that this Settlement Map just be adopted without a new redistricting process. Public input would be an important part of that process and I am sure that comments and critiques, such as you have made, would be welcome. Obviously, any map involves a great deal of compromise. Any redistricting map is going to be far from perfect and contains some aspects that are less than ideal. Being way up here in upper Northeast, I am not so familiar with the specific Sixth Ward-related concerns you are expressing, but I would urge everyone to look at how a map more similar to the Settlement Map than the Disputed Map would be in the overall public interest for the city as a whole.
Bruce Shoemaker Holland Neighborhood -__--__--
<Message: 17 <Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:28:24 -0700 (PDT) <From: Barbara Lickness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Subject: [Mpls] Redistricting Map - The settlement offer
<I finally got ahold of the proposed map being offered <in the settlement of the redistricting suit. I think <the way Zimmermann drew the sixth ward is way worse <than it was drawn in the redistricting map that is <currently in place. He has chopped through the middle <of two of the regions of Phillips. The redistricting <commission took into consideration that Phillips now <operated "politically" as four regions and drew their <lines at regional boundaries. Zimmermanns has no <consideration for that.
<What's with chopping two blocks of Whittier into the <10th ward? That is really stupid and serves no <political purpose for those folks. I know they have <been in 9 before. I just think that keeping the <boundaries drawn along neighborhood boundary lines <makes more sense and gives disenfranchised <neighborhoods a little more political power.
<After looking at this map, I hope the law suit fails <and the sixth ward stays the way it currently is.
<Barb Lickness <Whittier
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