Virginia Redistricting: McDonnell Vetoes Maps

Not much so far except some tweets, such as:

Gov. McDonnell vetoes redistricting bill, has “significant concerns” that Senate plan may violate state and federal law.

I’m not clear on whether this means McDonnell is sending the legislature back to the drawing board, or whether he plans to substitute in maps of his own. So much for the grand bargain.

73 thoughts on “Virginia Redistricting: McDonnell Vetoes Maps”

  1. McDonnell may use this as a method to draw things out. It has been discussed on here that the Virginia GOP could try to delay redistricting until after the 2011 election in the hopes of getting a majority in the State Senate.

    On the other hand, this may be purely a move to look good for the public. I’ve found reading McDonnell not as easy as I anticipated.

  2. In the thread where the plans were announced. Vetoing is a win/win for McDonnell. He gets good government kudos, and the Democrats in the Senate have bet everything, absolutely everything, on germandering their way to victory in november. They have no platform, no agenda, no money, no orginization. The House republicans can survive a non-partisan or court drawn map. The Senate Democrats can not.

    And MS demonstrated that Tea Party’s are now active lobbying against Republicans who are complicity in Democratic geymanders of any chambers anywhere.

  3. If he’s consistent about this, it will cost the Republicans a seat in Congress, since he’d presumably support a map that creates a Democratic district in the Richmond area. Maybe he’s just concerned about getting the State Senate back into Republican hands.

    Either way, Speaker Howell has to be screaming into McDonnell’s voicemail, because there’s no way he wants a nonpartisan map or redistricting dragged into 2012, not when his vulnerable NoVa Republicans would be downticket from Obama.

  4. It will now be significantly harder for Democrats to retain the Senate in VA.

    Andrew Cuomo, take note.

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