Who Wanted To Exclude Dyker Heights in Our New District and Gerrymander Brooklyn?
Above is the new proposed NYC Council district for our area (which will be called District 38). You can see the whole map here.
You will notice that the new district includes Bay Ridge with part of Sunset Park, It excludes Dyker Heights and Bath Beach (Republican blocks have been omitted).
Machine Democrats think they have tricked people into thinking they aren’t gerrymandering because they are forming an “Asian District.” This is really to omit Republican voters from the district, like they did with the senate district. (See here)
Asians can run in any district they want – they don’t need an “Asian District” formed by white men. Any politicians promoting an “Asian District” shouldn’t be in office because this is racism. If they can’t represent Asians, they shouldn’t run for office!
In the last election, Justin Brannan didn’t do as well as an incumbent, as Vinnie Gentile did. They added more Democrats to the district. See the political breakdown of the new district here.
Dyker Heights didn’t vote for Brannan because they ask for his help and he doesn’t help them. Red areas are where Brian Fox won. You can see this map here.
Sunset Park is being divided. Alexa Aviles should be fighting hard against this as Sunset Park always gets treated unfairly because they think the people there won’t fight (they didn’t fight when the Senate district was made this way). The Democrat machine thinks they have Aviles beat here. (And they may – see here)
A little over a week ago, the Bay Ridge Democrats asked people to speak out against dividing Bay Ridge. (See here – it says 139 people sent letters.) Rumor was that Bay Ridge was going to be split between Brooklyn and Staten Island. We did not see Justin Brannan share that information.
Dennis Walcott appeared on NY 1 tonight discussing redistricting. He said they didn’t take input from any politicians (LOL). Walcott served as NYC Chancellor under Bloomberg (after the Cathy Black fiasco).
On Tuesday, July 19th, there is a Zoom meeting at 3:00 pm to discuss redistricting. (Why have a meeting at 3 pm?)
On July 27th, NYC Council member, Althea Stevens is having a Zoom meeting to tell communities how they can fight back against the gerrymandered map. (Notice that Justin Brannan did not set up a meeting about this.)
The public will have 30 days to respond with their thoughts about these new maps.
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Hugs,
marlene
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