By WMAL.com
Five days after a county judge struck down the democrats proposed congressional map the Maryland General Assembly passed a new map without the support of their republican colleagues. Maryland State Senator Michael Hough (R-Frederick & Carroll County) joined O’Connor & Company this morning to discuss how the new map remains a gerrymandered mess created to keep democrats in power statewide.
- The new map makes the districts more compact, but Republican lawmakers contend it’s still riddled with unfair partisan gerrymandering that would likely preserve the 7-1 advantage Democrats have over the GOP in the state’s U.S. House delegation in a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.
- Sen. Hough: “Well it’s lipstick on a pig. It looks better than the last one. It has to be more compact because of the judge’s ruling. I mean, the judge really ripped them. [She] said this is hyper-partisanship, this is one of the worst maps in the country. It’s more compact, looks prettier but the outcome is still basically the same. You’re going to end up with seven democrats, most likely, and one republican. And that’s a product of the gerrymander from ten years ago.”
- Governor Hogan has long since been a vocal critic of Maryland’s congressional map. He has been pushing for the adoption of a map by a panel he created by executive order. The governor has said that map was written by an independent panel that took politicians out of the process of drawing districts.
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