NATE MONROE | It's all in there: the contempt for public feedback, the unapologetic and naked self-interest, the incompetence that has come to define this era of City Hall politics.
Howard, a George W. Bush appointee, laid bare not just the council's flawed, clunky redistricting process but the rotten core of the council itself. It's all in there: the contempt for public feedback, the unapologetic and naked self interest, the incompetence that has come to define this era of City Hall politics.
Council members were explicit during the redistricting process last year and early this year that a top priority was drawing a map that protected incumbents — something elected officials in other cities might blush to admit out loud. Jacksonville City Council members, however, not only had no such reservations, that shameless ambition is now an argument key to the
"... the boundaries between packed and stripped districts divide Black residents from white residents with surgical precision," the plaintiffs wrote. For its part, the city does not claim its map was a result of any effort to comply with the Voting Rights Act. It's still clinging to the fiction race was not a consideration at all, despite a trove of public statements by council members clumsily but explicitly discussing racial targets for various districts.
They struck a bargain: White Jacksonville would share the benefits of this new city government, ensuring the city's core neighborhoods received badly needed infrastructure.
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