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Eric Ager stated on October 24, 2023 in a speech on the house floor:

“This map was drawn entirely in secret by an Ohio consultant … with taxpayer dollars.”

By Paul Specht• November 15, 2023

Rafael Anchia stated on April 20, 2017 in a tweet:

"How many federal rulings have NOW found intentional discrimination by #Txlege since 2011? 6."

By Bobby Cervantes• June 14, 2017

Nina Perales stated on May 31, 2011 in a press release.:

Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas "gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991."

By W. Gardner Selby• June 22, 2011

John McGuire stated on December 03, 2021 in a radio interview.:

“Overdoses in Virginia (are) up 35%.”

By Warren Fiske• December 14, 2021

Turning Point USA stated on March 27, 2021 in a video posted on Instagram:

HR 1 “gives the federal government the power to establish their own committees” to take over the redistricting process.

By Louis Jacobson• April 2, 2021

Armond Budish stated on November 03, 2011 in a news conference:

Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries."

By Joe Guillen• November 23, 2011

AFL-CIO stated on July 13, 2011 in a blog posting:

Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of "her state Senate district by a half a block."

By James B. Nelson• July 21, 2011

Virginia House Democratic Caucus stated on March 05, 2020 in Voting record:

On a referendum that could strip legislators of their redistricting power.

By Warren Fiske• March 24, 2020

Ted Budd stated on March 21, 2022 in a tweet:

“Pat McCrory appointed the ‘Republican’ judge who sided with Democrats in the partisan Democrat lawsuit/power-grab over redistricting.”

By Paul Specht• March 29, 2022

Adam Jarchow stated on July 16, 2019 in a tweet:

"Elected officials draw (legislative redistricting) maps. That’s it."

By Eric Litke• August 23, 2019

Dave Hansen stated on March 05, 2017 in an interview:

Wisconsin is "the most -- if not Number 1, number 2 -- gerrymandered state in the country" for state legislative boundaries.

By Tom Kertscher• March 17, 2017

Deb Butler stated on January 12, 2022 in a tweet:

Says the “NC appeals court” acknowledged the state’s election maps “are skewed,” but didn’t block them because they are “partisan hacks.”

By Paul Specht• January 21, 2022

John Lehman stated on July 10, 2012 in a radio interview:

The new 21st State Senate district was "created in secret for Van Wanggaard. It was drawn within half a block of his house."

By James B. Nelson• July 26, 2012

Jerry Tillman stated on November 15, 2019 in a speech:

Says the U.S. Constitution "doesn’t say anything about (redistricting) being fair. … it’s set up to be partisan."

By Paul Specht• November 26, 2019

Tom Cotton stated on October 21, 2021 in a tweet:

The newly drawn congressional district map in Arkansas “keeps communities together.”

By Louis Jacobson• October 22, 2021

Phil Berger stated on September 15, 2017 in In a press release:

North Carolina has "the strictest anti-gerrymandering standards in the entire country."

By Paul Specht• October 5, 2017

Ron Ramsey stated on January 27, 2012 in an email announcing redistricting maps.:

"This year’s redistricting has been the most open, interactive and transparent redistricting process in Tennessee history."

By Richard Locker• February 10, 2012

Will Weatherford stated on March 28, 2012 in remarks to the press:

"It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order."

By Katie Sanders• April 13, 2012

Robin Vos stated on September 15, 2023 in News release:

Gov. Tony Evers and Democrats "rejected our (Iowa model redistricting) proposal to enact the very plan they originally endorsed."

By Vanessa Swales• December 22, 2023

Ellen Freidin stated on December 13, 2010 in comments at the launch of the NoLabels.org website.:

"We have dozens of districts that go for 150 to 200 miles, splitting counties, splintering cities and connecting areas that have very little in common."

By Laura Figueroa• December 22, 2010

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