Brit Hume: Restricting Ballot in Virginia Isn’t About Fairness, It’s About Power

HUME: “No, it certainly doesn’t. The one thing, this is not an effort to do is to ensure fairness. It is done to ensure the Democrats have many more seats than they do now, and it’s an interesting process, bret, because Virginia unlike other states, actually had a system set up to take redistricting out of the hands of the politicians and gave it it to a bipartisan commission, split down the middle, between the two parties. So that there wouldn’t be any of this sort of thing but states that didn’t have such commissions such as Texas, or such regulations, were redistricting between the 10-year cycles that are normally customary for congressional redistricting. So Virginia decided it was forbidden to do so by this commission system they had enacted, that they wanted town do it with a state constitutional amendment which is what people are voting on but it’s very confusing because the message is being sent to say, we’re trying to restore fairness. Fairness isn’t what it’s all about. It’s about power, and the Democrats have some and they think they are in a position to get more.”

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Brit Hume: Restricting Ballot in Virginia Isn’t About Fairness, It’s About Power‘It is done to ensure the Democrats have many more seats than they do now’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:HUME: “No, it certainly doesn’t. The one thing, this is not an effort to do is to ensure fairness. It is done to ensure the Democrats have many more seats than they do now, and it’s an interesting process, bret, because Virginia unlike other states, actually had a system set up to take redistricting out of the hands of the politicians and gave it it to a bipartisan commission, split down the middle, between the two parties. So that there wouldn’t be any of this sort of thing but states that didn’t have such commissions such as Texas, or such regulations, were redistricting between the 10-year cycles that are normally customary for congressional redistricting. So Virginia decided it was forbidden to do so by this commission system they had enacted, that they wanted town do it with a state constitutional amendment which is what people are voting on but it’s very confusing because the message is being sent to say, we’re trying to restore fairness. Fairness isn’t what it’s all about. It’s about power, and the Democrats have some and they think they are in a position to get more.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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