‘Justice served’: NY Dems forced to fight each other for survival after gerrymander r
Democratic efforts to gerrymander New York’s congressional districts in their favor backfired spectacularly on Monday — forcing the party to eat its own for survival.
Three imperiled Republican seats appear to no longer be in jeopardy and one of two powerful New York Democrats will be out of a job, under new district maps unveiled Monday by a court-appointed expert.
US Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island, Brooklyn) saw her district redrawn by special master Jonathan Cervas of Carnegie Mellon University to no longer include the heavily Democratic area of Park Slope, former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Brooklyn neighborhood.
Two other districts upstate that were configured by Democrats in what Republicans dubbed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “Hochulmander” were also redrawn by Cervas to remain more GOP-friendly.
And in a stunning move, Cervas redrew two districts represented by entrenched Democrats in a way that now pits House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn) and House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens) against each other........................
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serves them right they got greedy and now they have to eat each other to survive.
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