The bipartisan vote only shows both parties can't be trusted, reform backers said.
Maureen O’Connor, a retired Republican Ohio Supreme Court chief justice who’s a leader of the redistricting reform amendment effort, declined an interview request. But she issued a lengthy statement Wednesday morning calling the new maps a “bipartisan gerrymander” suggesting that both parties can’t be trusted.
George Clark, a Democratic operative, imagined what Republicans might tell voters next year in a post on X, the website formerly known as Twitter. “‘Your elected representatives passed bipartisan maps to give you fair representation,” Clark wrote. “’But now, out of state special interests want to appoint government bureaucrats to pick who represents you’…The ads write themselves.”
“What are we going to do? Drag this to a state Supreme Court that cares even less about the law and the people than last year?” Brock said, referencing O’Connor’s retirement from the court at the end of last year. “…It is what it is, and let’s keep moving forward.” The state legislative map the court deemed unconstitutional was used anyway in 2022, but the court required it be redrawn this year.
“The thought that we would pass this and everybody would say my God, we’re all happy. Well, that will never happen. I think the process worked as it was designed and approved by voters in 2015,” Huffman said. “I think this is an argument that some folks will make,” said Catherine Turcer, executive director of Common Cause Ohio and a longtime redistricting reform advocate. “It doesn’t make much sense to me, because this was a bipartisan sweetheart deal. This is not what the voters wanted.”
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