Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek pulls back on redistricting deal

[brooklynite]

Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting

House Speaker Tina Kotek is pulling back on a deal to grant minority Republicans equal say in the state’s new political maps.

OPB has learned that Kotek told her caucus on Monday that she would appoint a new committee, with Democrats outweighing Republicans, in order to pass a new congressional map likely to give Democrats control of five of the state’s six seats.

That’s contrary to an agreement the House speaker cut with Republicans earlier this year, when she agreed to give them parity on the House Redistricting Committee, thereby requiring some GOP buy-in for any plan the committee took up.

Kotek explained to her members in caucus that she’d hoped that even split would result in consensus, but that Republicans ultimately refused to grant a “courtesy” vote that would allow Democrats’ plan to pass out of committee and to the House floor, where Democrats could easily approve it.

Read more: https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/20/after-slow-start-redistricting-proposals-get-moving-in-salem/

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Currently 4-1 D with a new district to be created.

[The Magistrate]

1. You Cannot Reason With These People, Sir

"What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable."

[ruet]

3. Why Would This Deal Be On The Table In The first Place?

Dems still love to play unilateral disarmament.

[The Magistrate]

5. No Idea, Sir

I find it hard to imagine anyone in the business not having learnt the lesson --- these people do not reciprocate.

[former9thward]

13. It was on the table to stop a lawsuit.

Now the Rs can sue bringing uncertainty into the process.

[paleotn]

2. Equal say?!

Oh, hell no.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Good choice because there was no choice

McConnell demonstrated the rule. If you have the power use it. If you don't, invent it.

[monkeyman1]

6. HERE'S a thought ! what about straight up voteing ?

NONE of this districts or electoral bull shit ! just straight up who is the most qualified ? but that would leave the the field of cheater's out ! can't have that ? just think , all of us vet's fought so you people can figure out how how to fuck this country up ? on behalf of all us , thank you , couldn't have done without you ! don't get the vaccine so you can protect your freedom's . you,your family, freind's ,will die because of your right to be the most stupid people on earth ! but , that's ok , we fought for that right ! so , please by all mean's , enjoy what's left of your time !

[leftieNanner]

7. This post is about Congressional redistricting in Oregon

Because of population increase in Oregon, there will be one more House seat. This will require redistricting. There was an attempt made to include Republicans more evenly in the process, but they blew it up.

I'm not exactly sure what you are saying in your post.

[monkeyman1]

8. just the popular vote period ! none of this crap of drawing map's !

let everybody's vote count ! none of this this stuff democrat & republican & independent per capita stuff be in it ! just count the damn votes & let the male or female win by way of the most vote's ! plane & simple ! un-complicate it !

[brooklynite]

12. So, there should only be one House member for all of Oregon?

Slow down the ranting and try to explain what you're saying clearly.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. dems are gonna play-it-fair themselves right back into the minority

[bhikkhu]

10. As an Oregonian, that's fine

I live on the East side of the Cascades and hear nothing but griping. Lots of people here want to split off and join Idaho, or straight out advocate for revolution and the collapse of the US. They have no actual policies, no real plans or ideas, and increasingly very little grasp of reality. Giving them a bigger voice in government is completely pointless and would just increase the dysfunction; it would solve nothing.

[madville]

11. Gerrymandering is fine

as long as you're on the winning side of course

[Steelrolled]

14. Reality speaks.

[cstanleytech]

15. Article headline is misleading imo as it was the Republicans that were actually the cause. nt

[KPN]

16. Thank God! That was an idiotic deal in the first place.

I take that back: it was appallingly stupid in the first place. “Fairness” is irrelevant in the midst of a war. And we are certainly in one as the Rs have openly declared in the past 8 months — the facade has been removed by them themselves.