A new map expected to be approved today has left the state's Democrats scrambling.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney speaks at a news conference during the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia, Pa., March 11, 2022.
And a potential successor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was drawn out of his Brooklyn district in the new map, which also splintered several historically Black neighborhoods.In April, the New York Court of Appeals voided proposed state Senate and congressional maps, charging that Democrats in Albany improperly gerrymandered their proposals after an independent commission failed to strike a deal on new maps.
"A majority of the communities in the newly redrawn NY-12 are ones I have represented for years and to which I have deep ties," Maloney said in a statement. "Black members of New York's congressional delegation have built diverse coalitions of support; they represent communities of Black, Brown, and White voters. The Proposed Map threatens to undo this significant progress," they wrote.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., another Black freshman lawmaker, criticized that message as"thinly veiled racism."
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