GSO doesn't need to redraw its City Council districts this year, but the numbers are close enough to warrant consideration of doing so.
And there seems to be a simple and politically-neutral fix: Moving one precinct from District 5 to District 4.
More, from Killian's article in today's N&R (GPV):
Steve Sherman, the city staffer who crafted the district lines for 32 years, said [...] moving one precinct — with 2,137 residents — from Wade’s district would make all the districts more equal in size and would affect about 30,000 fewer residents than Rakestraw’s plan. Wade won the last election with more than 70 percent of the vote, including that precinct. And she and Rakestraw are political allies.
perhaps Mr. Sherman could leave that suggestion on Mary Rakestraw's doorstep (anonymously, of course)
Posted by: Patrick Eakes | Apr 24, 2011 at 06:05 PM
But if we don't break it we can't fix it.
Posted by: Billy Jones | Apr 24, 2011 at 10:46 PM