Anonymous
Post 12/05/2021 09:31     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, it's funny how Democrats talk about voters rights, oppression, and jerrymandering, yet look at that crap w/ the TPSS-N. Bethesda map. It's so progressives can keep running the county into the ground.


They wanted one primarily Black district and one primarily Latino district. Which they are getting. But I think it's going to backfire on them. They assume those districts in a county of 1/3 immigrants will both vote and are liberal. And that's not always the case.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2021 08:47     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
Yeah, it's funny how Democrats talk about voters rights, oppression, and jerrymandering, yet look at that crap w/ the TPSS-N. Bethesda map. It's so progressives can keep running the county into the ground.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2021 19:10     Subject: Re:MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought the original intent for the 9 districts was to make changes Upcounty. It looks like the County will be segregated into white, black, latino, etc. districts. Is this going forward or backwards? Will resources in the black and brown communities improve just because its a black or brown district? Will Districts 1, 2, & 7 that are majority white be allowed to reject rezoning and affordable housing.


I this PP: Correction - I meant 7 districts.


Oh, in that case: no, that was not the intent of the referendum. The intent of the referendum was to expand the number of seats on the council to reflect the increase in population in the county.


The intent was to protect the at-large seats so that Takoma Park/Silver Spring progressives maintain their supremacy on Council. The public got a referendum to remove them and make them district Councilmembers. So there would have been 9 districts, each with smaller populations to represent.

Evan Glass proposed a counter referendum to add two new district Councilmember positions to Council. Now we will have 11 of those folks. And retain the four at-large.

This whole fight is about maintaining at large representation. Some may think that's what is in the best interest of county residents. Some don't.

Both maintaining over representation of TPSS while also diluting Bethesda representation. A double whammy. Add in maintaining dilution of upcounty Republicans and its a triple whammy.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2021 18:30     Subject: Re:MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought the original intent for the 9 districts was to make changes Upcounty. It looks like the County will be segregated into white, black, latino, etc. districts. Is this going forward or backwards? Will resources in the black and brown communities improve just because its a black or brown district? Will Districts 1, 2, & 7 that are majority white be allowed to reject rezoning and affordable housing.


I this PP: Correction - I meant 7 districts.


Oh, in that case: no, that was not the intent of the referendum. The intent of the referendum was to expand the number of seats on the council to reflect the increase in population in the county.


The intent was to protect the at-large seats so that Takoma Park/Silver Spring progressives maintain their supremacy on Council. The public got a referendum to remove them and make them district Councilmembers. So there would have been 9 districts, each with smaller populations to represent.

Evan Glass proposed a counter referendum to add two new district Councilmember positions to Council. Now we will have 11 of those folks. And retain the four at-large.

This whole fight is about maintaining at large representation. Some may think that's what is in the best interest of county residents. Some don't.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2021 14:34     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:North Bethesda is unhappy because they frequently are in opposition to what Takoma Park/Silver Spring want. Lumping them together means North Bethesda gets drowned out by Takoma Park Silver Spring.

They run the county anyway

What it means is that TPSS can elect a representative who can be pro-development and get lots of developer donations but not be an obvious hypocrite by blocking it in TPSS by dumping development in North Bethesda. It’s pretty obvious.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 15:24     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:North Bethesda is unhappy because they frequently are in opposition to what Takoma Park/Silver Spring want. Lumping them together means North Bethesda gets drowned out by Takoma Park Silver Spring.

They run the county anyway


Some people in North Bethesda are unhappy.

Others are not.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 15:20     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
North Bethesda is unhappy because they frequently are in opposition to what Takoma Park/Silver Spring want. Lumping them together means North Bethesda gets drowned out by Takoma Park Silver Spring.

They run the county anyway
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 15:15     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
I read in BB that N. Bethesda unhappy with being in a butterfly shaped zone with SS and TP. Would have preferred contiguous Rockville or Bethesda. Council will make Kemp Mills whole, but will not reconsider N. Bethesda ( I do not live there btw, just offering this info).


Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 15:12     Subject: Re:MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought the original intent for the 9 districts was to make changes Upcounty. It looks like the County will be segregated into white, black, latino, etc. districts. Is this going forward or backwards? Will resources in the black and brown communities improve just because its a black or brown district? Will Districts 1, 2, & 7 that are majority white be allowed to reject rezoning and affordable housing.


I this PP: Correction - I meant 7 districts.


Oh, in that case: no, that was not the intent of the referendum. The intent of the referendum was to expand the number of seats on the council to reflect the increase in population in the county.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 15:03     Subject: Re:MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:I thought the original intent for the 9 districts was to make changes Upcounty. It looks like the County will be segregated into white, black, latino, etc. districts. Is this going forward or backwards? Will resources in the black and brown communities improve just because its a black or brown district? Will Districts 1, 2, & 7 that are majority white be allowed to reject rezoning and affordable housing.


I this PP: Correction - I meant 7 districts.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 15:00     Subject: Re:MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:I thought the original intent for the 9 districts was to make changes Upcounty. It looks like the County will be segregated into white, black, latino, etc. districts. Is this going forward or backwards? Will resources in the black and brown communities improve just because its a black or brown district? Will Districts 1, 2, & 7 that are majority white be allowed to reject rezoning and affordable housing.


It's not 9 districts, it's 7 districts.

(Though it's true that the intent of many of the 9 Districts people was to have a district in the outer county that might possibly elect a Republican. This would have been a pipe dream even if their referendum had passed, which it didn't. However, Montgomery County Republicans have to be eternally optimistic, because that plus Robin Ficker is all they've got.)
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 14:54     Subject: Re:MoCo Redistricting map
I thought the original intent for the 9 districts was to make changes Upcounty. It looks like the County will be segregated into white, black, latino, etc. districts. Is this going forward or backwards? Will resources in the black and brown communities improve just because its a black or brown district? Will Districts 1, 2, & 7 that are majority white be allowed to reject rezoning and affordable housing.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 12:22     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this redistricting map that is being voted on by the Montgomery County Council?

Leisure World will now be in the "East County" district
Derwood has been shuffled to the "Glenmont" district
Takoma Park, Downtown Silver Spring and "North" Bethesda will be in the same district. (I don't see the name of this district)

There's more. https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/BCC/redistricting/index.html

What is going on?


What's going on is that the county, as required by law, is redoing the county council districts based on the 2020 Census and voter approval in 2020 of the charter amendment to expand the County Council from 9 members (5 districts, 4 at large) to 11 members (7 districts, 4 at large).

The website you provided the link for has all of the information.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 12:13     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this redistricting map that is being voted on by the Montgomery County Council?

Leisure World will now be in the "East County" district
Derwood has been shuffled to the "Glenmont" district
Takoma Park, Downtown Silver Spring and "North" Bethesda will be in the same district. (I don't see the name of this district)

There's more. https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/BCC/redistricting/index.html

What is going on?


East county is actually only the southern portion of the eastern part of the county. The other eastern portions went with the Olney, Sandy Spring, Ashton and Gaithersburg.

Maybe this makes since to everyone. It seems like the high diversity has been segmented out.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2021 10:19     Subject: MoCo Redistricting map
Has anyone seen this redistricting map that is being voted on by the Montgomery County Council?

Leisure World will now be in the "East County" district
Derwood has been shuffled to the "Glenmont" district
Takoma Park, Downtown Silver Spring and "North" Bethesda will be in the same district. (I don't see the name of this district)

There's more. https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/BCC/redistricting/index.html

What is going on?