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Last week, Fran Wagner, the president of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, wrote that the re-drawing of legislative and congressional boundaries to reflect the 2020 census results should be largely the responsibility of a “15-member Citizens Advisory Redistricting Commission.” Ms. Wagner was less than forthcoming about the details; she believes these 15 unelected, unaccountable “third parties” should be appointed by. well, she doesn’t say, but suggests they should come from among “academics, (unidentified) public interest groups, and (other) individuals.”
I can’t think of a fairer, less-partisan, more-objective group of folks than college professors and members of progressive groups, can you? As for other “individuals” serving on this commission, the league would undoubtedly allow any one as long as she/he is not a member, excuse me, a Republican member of the Kentucky General Assembly, whose supermajority members (105 out of a total of 138 state legisla