Timothy Birdnow

Does this surprise you? A late night surge in votes to approve the Virginia measure to gerrymander the state pushed it over the top. It had been trailing up until the very end.

Everyone is aware of the extremely misleading wording of the amendment (which only authorizes this one-time change, that returns to the old map once the Democrats consolidate their power) which spoke of "fairness" and "fixing" the actions of other states.

Fortunately a judge has struck this new map down. nut they will produce another and still gerrymander, albeit maybe a bit less obviously so.

This needed to fail.

I wonder if we can call another election and vote on it again?

At any rate the GOP failed to fund the fight against this while spending well over three times the amount they spent here to finance John Cornyn's efforts to win the Republican primary.

So why does this keep happening?

Party chairman Joe Gruters appears to be the weakest link. According to Wikipedia:

Gruters lost his first two elections and worked behind the scenes on several more losing campaigns.[5] He joined Vern Buchanan’s original successful 2006 campaign for Congress.[6] Gruters subsequently was chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota for ten years, longer than any of his predecessors.[7]

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Yes, he was there in Florida for the GOP takeover but was that his policies or rather the rise of Ron DeSantis and others who made Gruters look good when in fact he is a mediocrity?

I don't know but clearly he dropped the ball in the last few weeks and that was inexcusable. This guy needs to be treated like the weakest link "goodbye!"

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