But the administration fell short of its goal to create three new "fair fight" districts -- districts that would have increased the chances of Republicans being elected.
In a hearing on the post-2000 reapportinNew York New YoRepresentativetive Benjamin Gilman, an upstate Republican, said that during the 1982 redistricting he was promised by the majority leader of the state senate that "if I accepted that challenge of a fair-fight district, I would never again be asked or forced by the state to face that prospect of a fair fight once again..
In a hearing on the post-2000 reapportinNew York New YoRepresentativetive Benjamin Gilman, an upstate Republican, said that during the 1982 redistricting he was promised by the majority leader of the state senate that "if I accepted that challenge of a fair-fight district, I would never again be asked or forced by the state to face that prospect of a fair fight once again...
The Republican leaders of the Senate are preparing a plan of their own that would create two so-called fair-fight districts, pitting incumbents against each other, rather than slicing up two districts and distributing the pieces among their neighbors.
Democrats, however, are digging in for a fight, with District Attorney William R. Keating of Norfolk County and State Senator Robert O'Leary said to be mulling a run.
Mr. Anker's critics saw his actions as an assault on decentralization, but the fight over District 9 turned out to be only the opening skirmish in a battle that still continues.
Mr. Anker's critics saw his actions as a racially motivated assault on decentralization, but the fight over District 9 turned out to be only the opening skirmish in a battle that still continues.
Cheerleaders With Bible Verses Set Off a Debate and Cheerleaders Gain Ally in Free Speech Fight School district officials in, Kountze, Tex.ordered cheerleaders to stop putting Bible verses on banners, because they believed doing so violated the law on religious expression at public school events.
She fought the district, "to just [be able to] swim with the kids, it's supposed to be for everybody," she told a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times.
(And if there are now contentious fights over district lines to elect one more congressperson, imagine if at stake was also electing the president).
