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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet, the people who live in the SFH's are demanding they have more sway over the ANCs and demand that everyone conform to their suburban lifestyles and have for the past 40 years.[/quote]

I call BS.  What support do you have for your statement?  Neighborhoods that have been pushing back against the Smart Growth/Task Force gerrymandering have opposed breaking up their neighborhoods and excluding their voices from the ANCs that focus on issues on their neighborhoods.  No one is demanding "more sway."  But they don't want effectively to be gerrymandered out of their neighborhoods.[/quote]

Stop the split, and just say no to Trumpy gerrymandering in Ward 3![/quote]

Fourteen pages in and you still haven't realized that "gerrymandering" doesn't mean what you think it does?[/quote]

The definition of gerrymandering is seeking to achieve a political result by manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency.

That’s exactly the purpose behind the Smart Growth group’s plan to redistrict Ward 3 ANCs.  (How were three individuals connected with one Smart Growth advocacy group appointed to the task force anyway?!)  Their gerrymandering scheme splits up cohesive neighborhoods that have been represented by one ANC since the Home Rule Act created ANCs and realigns them around major arterial roads and administrative planning areas where Smart Growth wants increased development density.  Their means is to divide and dilute neighborhood voices and the aim is pretty clear: to elect ANC commissioners who will rubber-stamp the aggressive development agenda pushed by the Smart Growth lobby and the DC Office of Planning which is aligned with that lobby.  Parts of neighborhoods that today are within one ANC and represented by one commissioner will be split among at least ANCs and multiple commissioners under the Smart Growth gerrymandering.  Some blocks would be divided among as many as three different SMDs.  One proposed new SMD will be only one block wide in certain blocks yet extend over 1.6 miles, spanning several neighborhoods served by four different public elementary schools.  Other proposed SMDs are redrawn in bizarre shapes around the residences of Smart Growth-aligned incumbents to create favorable electoral districts for them.  It’s beyond baffling that Councilmember Cheh’s office gave so much latitutde over Ward 3 ANC redistricting to a Trump-Manafort political consultant whose agenda is to advance the interests of Smart Growth development clients.   [/quote]

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