End gerrymandering in Penna.

Here is an announcement for people in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.  (I have to add that-there are also Carbon counties in Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.)  I'm putting it on the Palmerton Library door.     Please attend if you are able.

Ongoing efforts to end gerrymandering – What's new since the PA Supreme Court decision,  will be the topic of an informational program for the public to be held at the Palmerton Area Library, 402 Delaware Ave., Palmerton.

Tuesday, March 26^th, 6:00 -7:30 p.m. (Upstairs Gallery Room)

Many people think that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court resolved gerrymandering. To the contrary, the court only required remedial maps for the 2018 and 2020 congressional elections. The court did nothing about Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered legislative districts. And, redistricting starts all over after each census, the next to take place in 2020. Come learn what is at stake for democracy, what could happen with business-as-usual, and how citizens can demand a better and transparent process.

Fair Districts PA is a nonpartisan coalition of citizens and organizations seeking to reform PA redistricting rules by taking the process out of the hands of party leaders and putting that process into the hands of an impartial, transparent, and accountable citizens’ commission.

For more information, contact the speaker, Diana Dakey, ddakey@comcast.net

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You may have seen that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear gerrymandering cases.  Since the court is a branch of the Republican Party, it will not rule for the fair and nonpartisan drawing of districts.  This is one reform that will have to come from the bottom up