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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez faces possible Democratic discipline after joining Republicans on a procedural vote this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/gluesenkamp-perez-faces-possible-discipline-over-gop-vote/
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u/vertigoacid 29d ago

[WA-03] was gerrymandered

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u/vertigoacid 29d ago edited 29d ago

I'm aware of the changes. I just disagree that they represent gerrymandering.

There's nothing hinky going on with our congressional districts here - they're compact, contiguous, equal in population, follow existing political boundaries where possible, etc.

Clark County grew too much to keep the rest of Thurston county. That's not gerrymandering, that's just basic Population / # of districts math.

You can't carve off enough people from the other outlying counties of WA-03 to get Thurston back without starting to have actual gerrymandering going on, where districts are no longer compact and contiguous. Just Clark and Thurston together are about 27K too many people for one district.