{"id":1600,"date":"2011-08-25T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/gerrymandering-georgia-for-jack-kingston-to-get-moody-afb.html"},"modified":"2011-08-25T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:55:02","slug":"gerrymandering-georgia-for-jack-kingston-to-get-moody-afb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/gerrymandering-georgia-for-jack-kingston-to-get-moody-afb.html","title":{"rendered":"Gerrymandering Georgia for Jack Kingston to get Moody AFB"},"content":{"rendered":"Jack Kingston told Gretchen\n\nlast week in Tifton<\/a>\nthat he was heading to Atlanta the next day to try to retain\nMoody Air Force Base in his district.\nLooks like he may get that, by chopping just the Moody area out of Lowndes\nCounty, and splitting the Pine Grove precinct.\n

\nWalter C. Jones wrote for the Rome News-Tribune yesterday,\n\nRevised congressional map passes House committee<\/a>\n

\nThe House redistricting committee voted along party lines Wednesday to\napprove a revised congressional map with multiple changes from the one\nmade public Monday.\n

\nThe changes restore Valdosta’s Moody Air Force Base to Republican Jack\nKingston’s district and about 16,000 people in Effingham County to\nDemocrat John Barrow’s to keep the two equal in population.\n<\/blockquote>\nYeah, they restore it all right.\nHere’s before and after:\n\n
\n\n<\/a>\n
\n\nBefore<\/small><\/a>\n<\/td>\n		\n\n<\/a>\n
\n\nAfter<\/small><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr><\/table>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nHard to see?\nLook at the detail map on the right here.\nThis latest proposed gerrymander gives Kingston Clinch and Echols\nCounties just so Jack can send a green tongue out from Echols\nto lap up Moody with as little of the rest of Lowndes as possible.\n

\nIt gets better.\nLook at the\n\nLowndes County precinct maps:<\/a>\n\n\n\n
\n\n<\/a>\n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

\nIt looks like that tongue includes the\nNaylor precinct, but chops a chunk out of the Pine Grove Precinct\njust to get Moody.\n

\nHard to see?\nTry this detail map, on which I’ve drawn a green line approximating the shape of the green tongue on the new proposed district map:\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nIt looks like Jack’s green tongue runs up Studstill Road and Bemiss-Knights\nAcademy Road to get to Bemiss, then follows Cat Creek Road to\nNew Bethel Road, which it follows to the Lanier County line.\nIt doesn’t include any of Lanier, Berrien, or Cook Counties:\njust enough of Lowndes County and its Pine Grove Precinct to get Moody AFB.\n

\nAccording to Orlando Montoya in GPB News 16 August 2011 Kingston’s motivation is:<\/a>\n

\nUS Congressman Jack Kingston is closely watching the once-a-decade redistricting turf war in the state capital.\n

\nThe Savannah Republican wants to keep his Valdosta constituency.\n

\nValdosta is home to Moody Air Force Base.\n

\nKingston also represents Fort Stewart, Hunter Army Airfield and the King Bay Naval Submarine Base.\n

\nThe ten-term Congressman says, the military installations represent a community of interest that should be kept together.\n<\/blockquote>\nRight. By dividing up the community of interest of Lowndes County,\nand dividing up the community of interest of Pine Grove Precinct.\nAnd separating Clinch and Echols counties from their nearest metro area.\nThanks, Jack.\n

\nAnd what does Austin Scott get in exchange?\nTelfair County.\nIf Telfair people don’t like being a pawn in Scott and Kingston’s\ngame, maybe they should contact their legislators, too.\n

\nEither way I won’t be in Jack’s district anymore;\nlike the rest of Lowndes County, I’ll be in GA-08, currently\nheld by Austin Scott.\nBut this is ridiculous gerrymandering, maybe even worse than chopping\nup Lowndes County into four Georgia House districts like the legislature\njust did.\n

\nIf any of this doesn’t seem right to you, here is contact information\nfor\nyour state elected officials<\/a> plus \nKingston:<\/a>\n

\n\n\"Georgia<\/a>\n\n\"Georgia<\/a>\n\n\"Georgia<\/a>\n\n\"Georgia<\/a>\n\n<\/a>\n

\nAlso, why do we have to go to a Rome, GA newspaper to find this stuff?\nWhere’s the VDT when we need it?\n

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