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OneLegUpAlex Media Asks Council-Member Frank Morano About Re-Districting on the Arthur Aidala Power Hour on 5-1-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Well back here at one look up Alex Media. It
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  Speaker 1: was a special night last night honoring John Sterling by
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  Speaker 1: I again. I'm still processing my thoughts and i'll share
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  Speaker 1: that with you as it's going to coincide with tomorrow's
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the memorial for my dad. I'll talk all
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  Speaker 1: about the synchronicity, the connection, the feelings, and so that'll
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  Speaker 1: come tomorrow. But it is interesting that John Sterling retired
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  Speaker 1: a year after or announce his retirement a year after
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  Speaker 1: my dad had passed, and that was there's some synchronousy
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  Speaker 1: there that I want to cover and what my motivation
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  Speaker 1: is moving forward. But you'll hear that tomorrow. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into part two of the redistricting
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  Speaker 1: conversation because I mean to play this. It was ask
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  Speaker 1: Frank anything on the Arthur I Della Power Hour on
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  Speaker 1: Friday night and Councilman Frank Morano open up the phone lines,
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  Speaker 1: open up people to ask questions. Well, here was mine.
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  Speaker 1: The nerdy in me was like, well, what's up? What's redisseurting?
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  Speaker 1: How will it help New York? Will it help New York?
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  Speaker 1: And here's what the council members they answered.
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  Speaker 2: What, Alex Garrett, your question, please sir, all right, redisteresting
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  Speaker 2: been and the news a lot lately.
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  Speaker 1: How does this redistricting talk affect New York City?
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  Speaker 2: That is a great question, And you know, first for starters,
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  Speaker 2: I am totally against any form of jerry mandering, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's Republicans trying to do it in places like Texas
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  Speaker 2: or Florida, or Democrats trying to do it in states
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  Speaker 2: like California or Illinois. Totally against it. I think there
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  Speaker 2: should be, you know, a constitutional amendment against it, which
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  Speaker 2: leads us to New York State, where there is a
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  Speaker 2: constitutional amendment against redistricting. And in spite of that, in
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  Speaker 2: spite of the fact that there has to be an
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  Speaker 2: independent redistricting commission that draws these lines that then has
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  Speaker 2: to be approved by the state legislature, we have now
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  Speaker 2: seen for the last two elections the Democrats try to
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  Speaker 2: redraw the lone Republican congressional district in this city. Infact,
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  Speaker 2: the last time I was fortunate enough to host this show,
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  Speaker 2: I talked with my congresswoman Nicole Mallia talkas about that,
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  Speaker 2: and she won in court they said that her district
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  Speaker 2: should be redrawn. And basically in New York they've tried
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  Speaker 2: to do this several times, and unlike left wing efforts
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  Speaker 2: in California, and right wing efforts and Virginia most recently,
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  Speaker 2: and right wing efforts in places like Texas, they have
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  Speaker 2: been unable to do so in New York. So New
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  Speaker 2: York because in part the redistricting laws that were passed
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  Speaker 2: by the voters around twenty ten to twenty eleven, and
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  Speaker 2: in part just because there's so many Democrats everywhere and
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  Speaker 2: are the few Republicans that are still around have to
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  Speaker 2: go somewhere. It has they've been able to gerrymander the
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  Speaker 2: Assembly and the State Senate. By the way, Republicans when
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  Speaker 2: they were in charge of the State Senate they did
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. They made sure that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Senate districts when they were in the majority,
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  Speaker 2: remained Republican Senate districts. But in New York they've tried
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  Speaker 2: to do it and they've been unsuccessful because of both
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  Speaker 2: the federal courts and the state courts.
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  Speaker 1: Are those to the judges on that one, right.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt, Absolutely, what a good point.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely that entire hour you can check in and of
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  Speaker 1: course always listen to Arthur Idalla and the six pm
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Idella Power Hour on AM nine seven The Answer
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  Speaker 1: Always proud to be part of that show, and then
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  Speaker 1: play clips of it on my own podcast at one
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  Speaker 1: Lego alex Media. Part three of redistricting coming up next
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  Speaker 1: with Tom Joseph. Stay tuned