Robert Foster

Being the moron king to barking seals is easy. Being smart & governing well is harder. So let’s say we start redistricting as a state after qualifying deadlines have already run statewide. And let’s say we redistrict statewide after primaries are already completed, with winning nominees selected. Set aside that this is unprecedented. Set aside what it does to the integrity of the election. Set aside the deluge of Due Process lawsuits that have nothing to do with the VRA that will hit the state. What’s to prevent this new precedent from being used every cycle? Legislature doesn’t like the candidate the voters selected? Redistrict them out, invalidate hundreds of thousands of casted votes, and run the election over! Is this really where we want to go? This isn’t about one election or one candidate you don’t like. Think hard. You don’t change the rules of a baseball series when game 1 is already in the books. Some of these folks can’t contemplate a universe in which their own gamesmanship ends up biting them in the ass. Others can, and don’t care, because they just want social media engagement.

Being the moron king to barking seals is easy. Being smart & governing well is harder. So let’s say we start redistricting as a state after qualifying deadlines have already run statewide. And let’s say we redistrict statewide after primaries are already completed, with winning nominees selected. Set aside that this is unprecedented. Set aside what it does to the integrity of the election. Set aside the deluge of Due Process lawsuits that have nothing to do with the VRA that will hit the state. What’s to prevent this new precedent from being used every cycle? Legislature doesn’t like the candidate the voters selected? Redistrict them out, invalidate hundreds of thousands of casted votes, and run the election over! Is this really where we want to go? This isn’t about one election or one candidate you don’t like. Think hard. You don’t change the rules of a baseball series when game 1 is already in the books. Some of these folks can’t contemplate a universe in which their own gamesmanship ends up biting them in the ass. Others can, and don’t care, because they just want social media engagement.

Being the moron king to barking seals is easy. Being smart & governing well is harder. So let’s say we start redistricting as a state after qualifying deadlines have already run statewide. And let’s say we redistrict statewide after primaries are already completed, with winning nominees selected. Set aside that this is unprecedented. Set aside what it does to the integrity of the election. Set aside the deluge of Due Process lawsuits that have nothing to do with the VRA that will hit the state. What’s to prevent this new precedent from being used every cycle? Legislature doesn’t like the candidate the voters selected? Redistrict them out, invalidate hundreds of thousands of casted votes, and run the election over! Is this really where we want to go? This isn’t about one election or one candidate you don’t like. Think hard. You don’t change the rules of a baseball series when game 1 is already in the books. Some of these folks can’t contemplate a universe in which their own gamesmanship ends up biting them in the ass. Others can, and don’t care, because they just want social media engagement.