Important---and more than "disturbing," horrifying---if true.
After my speech at the Democratic Convention, the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) gave me some disturbing information.
Right now, the GOP is executing a plan to TAKE 38 governorships over the next three years. If they accomplish this, they will have the power to shrewdly alter election district borders and steal back Congress.
Why governors? Governors influence redistricting--the redrawing of congressional district lines, and all states redistrict in 2011 to make our government more representative. But like Texan Tom DeLay, who led the underhanded, but legal, effort to create SIX new Republican congressional districts in Texas in 2003, the GOP wants to make government non-representative--to win by making it impossible for Republicans to lose.....
Democrats have a 28-state majority of governors. But 47 governorships will be decided in the next three years, starting with 11 in 2008. And the Republicans have already raised close to $30 million. Their plan is to use this massive war chest to pick up 16 new governorships and gerrymander their way to a new congressional majority.
This is not Democratic propaganda. Just read these words from a spokesman of the Republican Governors Association:
"We could feasibly see 25 to 30 congressional seats swing as the result of redistricting...The odds are, if it is a Republican in the governor's chair, the seat will end up in GOP hands."
Republican governors = manipulated districts = 25 to 30 more congressional seats in GOP hands!
This is old-school, back-room politics at its worst, and if they succeed, our democracy will suffer for years to come.
One thing is clear--the Republicans expect to lose at the ballot box for a long time to come, unless they get their 38 governors and give themselves an unbeatable edge.
So let's give them the defeat they expect and deserve starting with this year's races.
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