It was a preview of coming attractions.
The bill on the House floor dealt with the election of county commissioners.
My Republican colleagues started talking about single-member districts.
It was relevant to the bill before us.
It will also be relevant when we draw the map for new legislative districts for the General Assembly next year.
The Republican strategy will be to create single-member districts where their candidates have a better chance to win.
My district is the norm. It has three members.
We serve 120,000 residents.
If we were in single-member districts, each would have a population of only 40,000.
We wouldn’t be working for diverse communities. We wouldn’t have a broader perspective on the impact of the decisions we make in Annapolis.
Pimlico is an example.
Neighborhoods on all sides of the track are in the 41st District. From the outset, I involved all of them.
Everything I’ve learned over the years taught me to do that.
But a smaller, single member district makes that cooperation less likely.
