"Gerrymandering and Pennsylvania's democratic deficit" [View all]

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"It’s one more measure of how desperate the legislature is to avoid reforms aimed at better politics and democracy in order to protect its privileged, over-paid, over-perked, under-performing self.

Tuesday’s call by voters’ rights group Fair Districts PA seeking at least a hearing on efforts to reform Pennsylvania’s nationally vilified gerrymandering is almost certain to be ignored."

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/john_baer/gerrymandering-and-pennsylvanias-democratic-deficit-20170912.html

It is literally vomit inducing that these "representatives" (who do not represent) and are the overwhelming majority in the pa legislature (GOP) lecture the world on the benefit of free market competition yet actually use their power to stifle electoral competition.