SALEM â The Legislature and Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan appear headed for a showdown over who will control redistricting of legislative and congressional maps to be used in the 2022 election.
The Senate Redistricting Committee heard testimony on Wednesday, Feb. 3, for U.S. Census Bureau officials that data legally required for the Legislature to draw maps would not be available until after it adjourns July 1.
It was supposed to arrive April 1. We have not been able to achieve that, said Kathleen M. Styles, the chief of the census department dealing with redistricting.
Styles said data being sent to all states was delayed because of the difficulty of counting the population amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which struck just as the count was getting underway in March.
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Bay Street’s boys’ club has a long history of making nonsensical excuses to exclude women from positions of power.
One infamous incident occurred in 1976, when W. Earle McLaughlin, then chairman and president of Royal Bank of Canada, caused an uproar when he claimed the country’s largest bank couldn’t find a qualified woman to serve on its 48-member board of directors. Never mind that smaller rivals had already pulled off this seemingly impossible feat, including Bank of Montreal, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Mr. McLaughlin insisted his bank came up empty after scouring the entire country for credentialled women.