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How New York’s Redistricting Became a Civil War for Democrats
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 08, 2022 04:18pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | David Freedlander |
| News Date | Friday, June 3, 2022 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Bill de Blasio was having lunch at Caffè Reggio in the West Village on the third Monday in May, sinking in to what he assumed would be a post-mayoral life of writing and commentary, when his phone started blowing up. State lawmakers were at a silent vigil for the Buffalo shooting victims when their phones started pinging. Alessandra Biaggi, a state senator from the Bronx and Westchester who had spent most of this year running for Congress in a district that was almost entirely on Long Island, was at home on her computer and thought, Okay, what am I supposed to do now?
The frantic browser refreshing and texting were because a postdoctoral fellow in political science at Carnegie Mellon University had, upon the order of the state’s Court of Appeals, released new maps that would determine what the state’s congressional districts would look like for the next ten years and, in doing so, tossed the city and state’s political order — particularly the Democratic side of it — into disarray.
Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, who for a combined six decades represented side-by-side districts in Manhattan — he on the West Side, she on the East — were thrown together in one district stretching lengthwise across the island. Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clarke, longtime allies in the Brooklyn political firmament, were tossed into the same district after Bedford-Stuyvesant was split in two, dividing the historically Black district in a way Jeffries said would “make Jim Crow blush.” Nydia Velázquez, a 30-year incumbent from a district drawn to ensure Puerto Rican representation in the House of Representatives, was drawn out of hers, while an entirely new district that stretched across the bougie neighborhoods in lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn brownstone belt was created out of whole cloth. |
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