To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Retake, Redraw and Restore Democracy
We call on President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to call out Republicans over-reach in their coming threats to shut-down the government. They did not actually win the House in the 2012 if we count the votes nationally--Democrats won by 540,000 votes. It is only due to gerrymandering of U.S. Congressional Districts in certain states that have allowed the Republicans to retain power in the House. Enough is enough. Call this out for what it is during these very important coming political battles. We ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put together a bipartisan committee of fair-minded Senators (with a majority of Democrats who have earned their place) to hammer out reasonable geographical and geometrical standards for U.S. Congressional districts to be shaped, that stand the test of time, and are not tied to any particular political party. Do this in such away, to craft new law which will require a minimum of ten of the worst politically manipulated congressional districts and a maximum of seventy of the districts to be redrawn in 2013.
Why is this important?
While most Americans weren't paying attention, the GOP has quietly been power grabbing by redrawing U.S. Congressional districts to favor Republicans into perpetuity, in a number of consequential states with Republican Governors and Republican led State Legislatures working hand in hand to manipulate and destroy our democracy. In the 2012 election Democrats running in the U.S. House of Representatives won 540,000 more votes than their Republican counter-parts did. Yet due to the crafty gerrymandering of electoral districts in states like Texas and Pennsylvania--we end up with the Republicans not only controlling the House and holding our entire economy hostage with threats of defaulting on the debt. Drunk with power and with the confidence that these manipulated districts will not be challenged--they are constantly holding your economic future and my economic future hostage.
My forefathers worked hard to help create democracy in the United States of America. My father and several of my grandfathers fought hard in America's wars for the big idea that we have had that our Congress men and women and Senators are to be elected by a majority of voting Americans. The Republican Party has gone too far now. It is time for ALL OF US to call this out and demand common sense geometrical and geographical standards and make Federal Law for redrawing the most bizarre and oddly shaped U.S. Congressional Districts and never again allow one political party, set themselves up for permanant domination through blatent, convoluted, oddly shaped, gerrymandering.
My forefathers worked hard to help create democracy in the United States of America. My father and several of my grandfathers fought hard in America's wars for the big idea that we have had that our Congress men and women and Senators are to be elected by a majority of voting Americans. The Republican Party has gone too far now. It is time for ALL OF US to call this out and demand common sense geometrical and geographical standards and make Federal Law for redrawing the most bizarre and oddly shaped U.S. Congressional Districts and never again allow one political party, set themselves up for permanant domination through blatent, convoluted, oddly shaped, gerrymandering.