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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, the "it's gerrymandered" PP is just wrong. Though I agree that it's visually confusing to have the municipal boundaries overlayed on the proposed district boundaries.

Also, Clarksburg does not have its own district; that district also includes most of Germantown.[/quote]
Good point. Germantown has more in common with Gaithersburg but they’re both too big to combine. But lots of the same issues as 270 corridor exurbs with not a lot of mass transit.

This makes so much more sense than the current districts below. Poolesville and Chevy Chase have nothing in common. Laytonsville and Wheaton have nothing in common. Burtonsville has gotten no attention for years because it was lumped in with downtown Silver Spring and Takoma Park.
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Yes, I like the switch from 5 districts to 7. Even with 7 districts, it's still about 160,000 people per district, but that's better than 220,000.

I know people in the rural western county who will complain that they're still not getting a real upcounty representative, but the numbers are not on their side. Plus, also, I'm pretty sure I know what they mean by "real upcounty."[/quote]

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