NJ Tea Party Group Sues State Commission over Legislative Map
A New Jersey-based Tea Party group filed a lawsuit challenging a state commission on the redrawing of New Jersey’s 40 legislative districts, according to
NJ.com. The Bayshore Tea Party filed the suit along with 38 Plaintiffs claiming the New Jersey Apportionment Commission – an 11-member commission composed of five Democrats, five Republicans and one independent tiebreaker – created a “gerrymandered map” clearly favoring Democrats that “will lock in one-party control of the New Jersey Legislature for the next decade.”
A New Jersey-based Tea Party group filed a lawsuit challenging a state commission on the redrawing of New Jersey’s 40 legislative districts, according to
NJ.com. The Bayshore Tea Party filed the suit along with 38 Plaintiffs claiming the New Jersey Apportionment Commission – an 11-member commission composed of five Democrats, five Republicans and one independent tiebreaker – created a “gerrymandered map” clearly favoring Democrats that “will lock in one-party control of the New Jersey Legislature for the next decade.”
Attorney Russell Cote, a member of the tea party group, argued in the suit, “There is simply no rational explanation for the fantastical shapes into which the Constitutional Democrats crammed New Jersey’s legislative districts other than to effectively disenfranchise millions of voters to protect incumbents’ jobs.”