April 12, 2009 10:13 PM UTC

"Fairness" For Me, Not For Thee

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• by: Colorado Pols

A report fresh off the AP wire is sure to amuse:

Republican state Representative Mike May is proposing to change the way Colorado redraws congressional and legislative districts

The contentious process occurs every 10 years using federal census data to make sure districts have equal population.

Legislative districts are currently drawn by an 11-member commission appointed by the governor, chief justice of the state Supreme Court and legislative leaders. The Legislature draws the boundaries for congressional districts.

May wants a single, five member committee to do both jobs, in an attempt to avoid contentious partisan debate about district boundaries…

Hah! We bet he wants to avoid a “contentious partisan debate”–the last redistricting process, as many of our readers will remember, was certainly the most “contentious” in Colorado history, when Republicans decided to redraw the districts a second time after they consolidated their power in the 2002 elections, resulting in then-Attorney General Ken Salazar’s famous (and successful) lawsuit against his own state government. Safe to say that the Republicans approached the last redistricting believing the more “contentious” and “partisan” a process, the better–after all, the majority rules, right?

Of course Republicans aren’t the majority anymore. So can we please, oh please, have a little fairness? A poll follows–chutzpah or just pathetic?

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