Levin rips Snyder after gov signs new legislative district maps

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Detroit News

Lansing— Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed legislation that redraws legislative boundaries for state and congressional districts.

"At our peak, we had 19 seats in Congress. We only have 15 today and next year we are going to drop to 14 because Michigan was the only state in the nation to actually lose population over the last decade," Snyder said in a statement.

Every decade, states must redraw the boundaries for state House and Senate and U.S. House seats based on census results.

While Republicans say the districts conform to state and federal standards, Democrats say the districts are drawn to give the GOP political advantage.

Read more: http://www.detnews.com/article/20110809/POLITICS02/108090398/Levin-rips-Snyder-after-gov-signs-new-legislative-district-maps

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Gerrymandering

[aquart]

2. We'll see if it saves them.

[murielm99]

3. Not true.

Illinois is losing one Congressional seat. We lost population, too.