Wizard writes: > The economic engine for the fifth ward was gerrymandered into the > seventh ward, that's how. The Green members of the redistricting > commission could not overcome the greediness of the seventh ward, nor > stop the DFL from slicing and dicing the wards where Greens were in office.
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