Yes, I know. The headline elicits a lengthy list of possibilities. If you can’t think of more than a few, search “Chris Sununu” in the search bar above this post (or click here), and you’ll get the definitive conservatarian answer.
It’s a lot. About 900 articles. Some of them are favorable, less so in more recent years. It’s a lot, to which we can now add this.
Chris is “Dora the Congressional Map Explorer” and he has a redistricting map at which he wants us to look.
No, it’s not all squiggly or serpentine-like the ones coming out of Democrat-controlled New York or Illinois. These states lost Democrat house seats which the Dems in charge have “recovered” by gerrymandering Republicans out of office, instead.
No, it’s very simple. So, simple that NH Dems who refuse to answer questions about places like NY and IL look like assh*les for calling it gerrymandered. But that’s a feeling they share with Republican* Chris Sununu. He wasn’t happy with the one upon which our Republican majority legislature settled.
The legislature’s map created equity. It represented the highest probability of one Republican seat and one Dem seat instead of the two-dem seat arrangement we have been plagued with for years.
Balance. Ying-Yang. A state that elected Republican state legislators and a Republican* governor would have one voice in congress as would the Dems.
Equality!
Sununu doesn’t like it. Said he’d veto that and has followed this threat with his own map. A map that, “would make adjustments to the current districts to create a more competitive first district and a second district that still leans Democratic.”
Sununu’s map still gives up CD-2 to the Dems forever (not much could change that) and gives CD-1 to the Dems (more than likely).
WTF Is Wrong With You, Chris Sununu?
In a contentious political climate where one seat could decide leadership, committee chairs, the entire agenda, and the direction of our Nation, you’re like, eh, more Dems in congress. That’s fine.
Seriously.
What has happened inside your head and who the hell is advising you that this makes sense for Republicans or New Hampshire?
Or are you planning on switching parties sometime soon because I’m having an increasingly difficult time seeing how you being the governor is helping Republicans as opposed to just helping Chris Sununu.
And I’m actually not sure yet how this helps Chris Sununu, but you don’t do anything unless it helps Chris Sununu, so when does the other jack boot drop, and what’s in it?
Wait, I think I know.
Two Democrat districts in New Hampshire in perpetuity.
Now if I can just find that goal in the NH Republican Party list of priorities…
