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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 25. 2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 7B
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Georgia House adopts
Republican-drawn congressional map,
wraps up districting session
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - The Repub
lican-controlled state House
of Representatives approved
a new congressional map
Monday, the final act in a
once-a-decade redistricting
special session.
House members voted 96-
68 virtually along party lines
after Democrats complained
Republicans drew a map that
targeted a Black woman in
cumbent and spread minority
voters thin in order to retain
a GOP majority in Georgia’s
congressional delegation
through the end of this
decade.
‘‘This map puts power
over principle, partisanship
over people,” said House Mi
nority Leader James Beverly,
D-Macon.
Legislative Democrats
proposed a congressional
map that likely would have
led to a 7-7 split in the dele
gation, which they argued
would reflect the 50-50 parti
san divide that has arisen in
Georgia as a result of minor
ity population growth since
the last census in 2010.
Instead, the new map is
expected to pave the way for
Republicans to gain one seat
on their current 8-6 majority
for a 9-5 advantage.
To accomplish that, the
map looks likely to re-flip the
6th Congressional District
Democratic U.S. Rep. Lucy
McBath of Marietta - who is
Black - won in 2018 after it
had been in GOP hands for
decades. The district, cur
rently concentrated in ethni
cally diverse suburban East
Cobb, North Fulton and
North DeKalb counties, now
stretches into more exurban
and even rural communities
in predominantly white
Forsyth, Dawson and eastern
Cherokee counties.
“We should not be draw
ing maps that target women
incumbents,” said Rep.
Miriam Paris, D-Macon.
“This congressional map
does just that.”
Rep. Bonnie Rich, R-
Suwanee, chairman of the
House Legislative & Con
gressional Reapportionment
Committee, bristled at the
Democrats’ accusations of
targeting. She said it’s neces
sary to move voters out of
districts that have grown
larger than the 755,000
legally required for even dis-
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tribution and shift voters into
other districts that are under
populated.
“We don’t draw maps to
protect incumbents,” she
said. “We draw maps for the
people.”
The other specific com
plaint Democrats raised
Monday was over Republi
cans adding voters from
heavily Black South Cobb
County to the largely white,
rural Northwest Georgia dis
trict represented by conserva
tive firebrand
Congresswoman Marjorie
Taylor Greene, R-Rome.
But House Minority
Leader David Wilkerson, D-
Powder Springs, said there’s
more to the issue than
Greene, including the map
splitting Cobb between four
congressional districts, and
dividing South Cobb alone
three ways.
“This is not about Mar
jorie Taylor Greene or who
ever else represents the
district,” he said. “It’s about
fairness.”
But House Speaker David
Ralston said the decision to
extend the 14th District to the
south was not politically mo
tivated.
“That district needed to
pick up about 36,000 peo
ple,” said Ralston, R-Blue
Ridge. “We had to go some
where and find them. ...
That’s a challenge.”
Democrats are expected to
file lawsuits challenging the
congressional map and well
as new Georgia House and
Senate maps lawmakers
adopted earlier in the special
session.
Ralston said he’s confi
dent the maps will be upheld.
“The maps - the rhetoric
notwithstanding - are fair.
They follow the law and the
Voting Rights Act,” he said.
“I was very proud of the
process and the work that
went into this.”
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