Although unreported by the media, a furious battle is being waged between Congressmen Harper and Thompson over congressional redistricting. It seems Bennie wants Northeast Jackson. Bennie was offered Wilkinson County and surrounding areas but no, that did not fit into his schemes as he rebuffed the offer and wants at least eight precincts from Northeast Jackson added to his turf. JJ confirmed this political fight was taking place with at least half a dozen sources.
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Which eight precincts?
Cause, that's what it takes to give him the population increase his district requires. Currently, the 2nd CD is 70,000 people short of being equal. Moving Wilkinson and Adams from CD3 to CD2 would solve the problem. But Bennie wants to take it from NE Jxn and it would take 8 of the 13 precincts currently in CD3 to give the proper population shift.
Bennie wants to add "white" to CD2, because it will still be majority black, but he won't pick up any potential opponent from this new territory. He could pick up an opponent if he got majority black counties in the southwestern part of the state.
He has an opponent. Just announced on Monday. Cobby Williams.
He knows NE Jax is now use to electing black officals and then getting shafted
Can anybody say "Free the Land"?
Going along with Bennie's plan would effectively emasculate and neuter the voters of NE Jacktown. Move them into a black district where their votes will have zero meaning one way or another and it removes what little voice they had in the prior district. If not for these shennigans in the first place, Bennie would be baggin' at a Sack N Shop in Bolton. Bennie ain't this smart, but he gots him some handlers like the other shyster-dude up there leading the party.
Any plan that moves white voters into a majority black district will "emasculate" white voters, to use Shadowfax's word above, but there's no way to equalize the districts without some white people being moved into District 2. However, the movement into District 2 needs to come from District 1, not District 3. 3 and 4 are both within 2% of the ideal population without doing a thing. Taking 45,000 out of 1 and putting them into 2 brings all four districts within 5% of the ideal population. Bill Billingsley
This will all be decided by the 2012 Legislature. All the more reason that GOP control of the Mississippi House and Senate is very important.
Just vote him out... He needs to go... He is part of the problem.
Hopefully the 2012 legislature will move faster than the 2011 legislature on redistricting considering I think the primary is in March so I would suspect the qualifying deadline would be in February or January.
Shadow --
Voters in NE Jackson have been emasculated for a while now.
But they do it by choice.
What do you mean? By choice? Examples...
Voters in NE Jackson have been emasculated for a while now. ... But they do it by choice.
Dead solid perfect. Cecil Brown being only one example of the stupidity. It hasn't been lost on too many politicos that NE Jackson has been whoring itself out to McMillin for decades.
Hmmmm... Neither plan places RINO Mayor Knox Ross's favorite congressional candidate Democrat Mayor Joel Gill into the 3rd Congressional District...
Anon 2:21 --
By living in an ever-shrinking ethnic enclave (represented by the political/intellectual heavyweight Quentin Whitwell, I'd note), they have forfeited their right to any political power.
Fondrenites can say, "Well, we're urban and quirky." The Bellhaven crowd says "It's such a quaint, tight-knit neighborhood." The North Jackson people pine on about how great the good ole days were.
What they all have in common is that they've effectively ceded all their political power to the NAACP. That's not a value judgment; just an objective fact.
Want your vote to count? Try living someplace where you're in the majority.
It ain't rocket surgery.
You nailed it J. Kev
And 2:24 I actually made the mistake of voting for Cecil the first time he ran. Realized what a huge mistake that was when he voted against the LARGE majority of his own district and installed Ronnie Musgrove as governor. Never made that mistake again, but, the damage was done. I never have understood why his district kept on sending that POS back to the capital. Especially after he spit in their eye about Musgrove/Parker. And we all know how well that turned out.
Of course, if Mike Parker had, I dunno, CAMPAIGNED a little bit, he could have won the damn thing. I still shake my head over that one. But he's a Democrat anyway, so samey-same.
8:10: you must not be a conservative. why would you ever have voted for liberal democrat cecil brown over GOP rep ken stribling?
Who is this guy Cobby Williams? I checked out his site www.imwithcobby.com. we might have our next Congress for the 2nd district. He looks a lot smarter and knowledgeable than the other 2running
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