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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any CM that votes in favor of the Chair’s half-assed last-minute scribbling is not only sending a big FU to the dozens of volunteers who spent countless hours balancing competing concerns to arrive at fair solutions but is also telling everyone else in the city to never bother volunteering their time to help the Council out.[/quote]

I haven't followed all this closely but my understanding is the map committee volunteers weren't just altruistic grandmas.... Don't they all have skin in the game too[/quote]

No, they were all volunteers with no political domains to protect.[/quote]
But with an ideological purpose to fulfill. [/quote]

Really?!  Three of the task force members were all connected to the same (unincorporated) advocacy group that supports ANC candidates that espouse the group’s “Smart Growth” priorities.  The task force map created more favorable electoral districts for its favored candidates.  The main author of the neighborhood split plan, with extensive ties to Trump campaign and Manafort, himself was an unsuccessful ANC candidate.  His map dispatched his successful rival not only from his SMD but from the ANC entirely.  The task force’s “Jerry-mandering” stinks.[/quote]

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