After approval of a new set of GOP-drawn political maps, Georgia Democrats are switching districts or saying farewell to the state Capitol to avoid bruising primaries against colleagues.
On the congressional level, U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath of the majority Democratic 7th District will switch to a newly created 6th District west of Atlanta.
This comes just a few years after she switched into the 7th District after the prior Republican maps turned the swing 6th district she originally represented into a majority GOP seat.
I guess it’s only bad when it’s a high profile Republican.
Switching Congressional districts within states is not carpetbagging and never has been viewed as carpetbagging and has frequently been done by many members of both parties. The Constitution does not even require members to live in the districts they represent.
Dr. Oz and Hillary Clinton were carpetbaggers. These Congressmen of either party are not.
There is no such thing as in State carpetbagging. Carpetbagging involves switching States.
They are switching districts because re-districting happened, right? So even if they stayed in the same district, they’d be representing new and different constituents.
If you compare this to what Boebert is doing (which I think is the point of this thread), Boebert’s old district is still the same. She’s just running in a new district because she thinks she can’t win there anymore.
And that might be the case in Georgia, better chances in a different district, but the fact that these are entirely new districts makes it different.
I mean yea. I think that opinion is still valid. Deciding to change districts because you think you’ll have better chances elsewhere is a slimly political thing to do, IMO.
But in Georgia, the districts changed. So everyone was starting fresh, in a sense. Ideally, you’d want representatives to stick it out, but I would understand deciding to move on, given that the playing field changed.
