GOP Redistricting Process

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 25, 2011

Contact:  Adriadn Ortega, (919) 821-2777, ext. 302

GOP REDISTRICTING PROCESS TRANSPARENT?  (Yeah, transparently bogus).

RALEIGH - North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Parker reacted to NCGOP Chairman Hayes attacks on the Democratic Party's alternative maps today:

"Republicans don't own the public redistricting hearings that were held" said Chairman Parker. "The Democratic maps reflect what Democratic Senators learned at those hearings.  

"Senator McKissick, who issued alternative maps today, sat next to Senator Rucho throughout the hearings.  The difference is that  McKissick appears to have been listening and his maps reflect the real communities they represent."

"Meanwhile, the GOP maps were drawn by a highly paid Republican consultant so secret that we only learned his name last week.  As a public employee, paid by taxpayers, why wasn't Tom Hoffler made available to the public or press?"

"The maps released today by Democratic Senators Stein and McKissick are more compact and politically competitive.   They are fair and legal.  The GOP maps look like splattered bugs on Bob Rucho's windshield.  They seem to have sought inspiration everywhere but the wishes of real voters."