Sunday, 03 March 2024 10:12 PM EST
There was a collective sigh of relief last week for Republicans as the just-released new map for U.S. House seats in New York leaves 11 districts that were carried by Republican gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin in 2022.
Republicans had feared the court-ordered redistricting would eliminate as many as five GOP-held seats in favor of Democrats.
New York’s top Republicans say its delegation should remain 10 Republicans and 16 Democrats.
This is key to Republican efforts to maintain their wafer-thin hold of three seats in the closely divided House of Representatives.
The acceptance of the New York State Assembly and Senate, both of which have Democrat “supermajorities,” of a map that essentially maintains the status quo of U.S. House districts is due to the work of a new bipartisan group know as Stop NY Corruption.
Since the New York Court of Appeals in December ordered the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission to redraw the lines that were sculpted by a special master following completion of the census in 2021, Stop NY Corruption has hammered away at what it warned would be partisan gerrymandering.
Stop NY Executive Director Bobbie Anne Cox, an attorney and registered Democrat, told Newsmax her group was “very vocal about this.”
Stop NY Corruption blitzed the state, holding press conferences in Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and just about any major news outlet.
Their message was twofold.
First, as Cox told Newsmax, “no one should be drawing maps in the middle of the decade.”
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