Common Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting the winning maps to the MA Legislative Redistricting Committee for consideration.
The purpose of the redistricting Olympics is threefold: to educate the public about the steps in the redistricting process, to initiate public participation in the political arena, and to pressure the legislature to draw the districts so that the citizens are appropriately represented.
Help show the legislature that redistricting is about our interests, not theirs. By participating in our redistricting Olympics and learning how to draw your own fair districts, you can acquire the tools you need to expose attempts by public officials to politicize the state’s new legislative maps.
For more information check out Redistricting Olympics and/or email us at redistrictma@gmail.com.
Participate in our democracy!
The Dragon forgot to tattoo Swampscott on his right leg in between Lynn, Marblehead and Salem. We Swampscottians take those things very personally. We also see that you forgot to tattoo Nahant, as well, but don’t care about that so much. They use our schools anyway, and so probably don’t count.
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This cartoon was drawn in 1812. Swampscott wasn’t officially recognized as a town until 1852. But make sure Swampscott doesn’t get left behind in 2012 redistricting and draw a map in the interest of the Swampscottians…