Report: South Carolina Governor to Call for Special Session Over Redistricting Efforts
Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey said that the “legislative leadership is in the process of informing their membership to come back into session to debate the maps.”
Numerous outlets have reported that South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, will call lawmakers back to the State House to hold a special session over redistricting efforts.
Five Republican state senators voted with Democrats to block legislation to redraw South Carolina’s Congressional map.
The Senate needed a two-thirds vote to advance it.
The legislation fell two votes short.
According to the Post and Courier, Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey said that the “legislative leadership is in the process of informing their membership to come back into session to debate the maps.”
McMaster’s office has not commented, though.
Massey was one of the Republicans who voted against advancing the legislation, claiming the state is “the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already.”
Massey also insisted that the “attempts to draw a 7-0 Republican map might result in a 5-2 split.”
The House voted 87-25 to add redrawing the state’s Congressional map to a resolution outlining what the legislature can do when its session ends on May 14.
The idea is to make the state 7R – 0D. Right now, Rep. Jim Clyburn is the only Democrat holding a seat in South Carolina.
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I’m confused–the Senate vote fell two votes short, and the governor is calling the Senate back. Are they voting again? Is this a different approach?
He doesn’t need a 2/3 with a special session.
That sure doesn’t look like the most gerrymandered map I’ve seen.
You misunderstand the term gerrymandered.
Anything that prevents blacks from having a majority district is technically “gerrymandered” because Republicans are racist and hate black people/
See?
Time for some well qualified conservative Black Republicans to run & win in a few of those re-drawn districts. If only the R party could gets its $h1t together. That would be glorious!
Anything that is deliberately designed to achieve a particular result is a gerrymander. It’s not necessary to have districts with fanciful shapes; that merely highlights their nature and invites ridicule, hence the name from “Gerry’s salamander”. Gerry himself opposed the idea, but he didn’t think it was illegal, so he didn’t veto it, and as a result his name got stuck to it forever.
Leave it to the governor to finally do the right thing…
I have it on good authority that Elbridge Gerry (pronounced Gary) was a racist.
So should we call it ‘Garymandering’. I hear everyone say it as ‘Jerrymandering’
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