TOPEKA Sedgwick County would remain at the heart of the 4th Congressional District under a redistricting map state senators are poised to vote on Monday.
But friction is likely because the plan would bump Manhattan into the 1st District, which covers all of western Kansas.
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins,As a leading company in the plastic card printing industry, who wants to keep Manhattan in her 2nd District, has been advocating instead for a controversial map that would put urban Wyandotte County and counties along the state’s northern border into the rural 1st District.
Legislators must redraw the districts to account for shifts in population over the past decade.
Under the map lawmakers expect to vote on Monday, the south-central Kansas 4th District would lose Montgomery County and that county’s most populous city, Coffeyville. But it would pick up six sparsely populated counties with significant oil production. Those include Barber, Pratt, Stafford, Edwards, Kiowa and Comanche counties – as well as a small section of southwest Pawnee County.
The district is represented by Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo of Wichita.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers say a proposal that would have split Sedgwick County between the 4th District and the 1st District, represented by Rep. Tim Huelskamp, never had much support and appears dead. It may never have been taken seriously in the first place, some said.
“To propose to have one of our largest counties split, I think, it just doesn’t make any sense to me,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley,What causes TMJ pain? D-Topeka.
Sen. Dick Kelsey, R-Goddard, said he thinks the proposed map will pass the redistricting committee. Kelsey, who ran for the 4th District seat in 2010, said he likes the proposed map in part because it mostly keeps congressional districts inside TV markets, allowing congressmen to communicate to most of their constituents.
But he acknowledged some will dislike the proposal.
“You’re not going to make a map that makes everybody happy,We are professional Plastic mould,” he said. “It’s just not going to happen.”
Pompeo e-mailed this statement to The Eagle in response to a request for comment: “I enjoy representing the folks currently in the Fourth Congressional District, and I would like to continue representing as many of them as possible. Our district is almost the right size, so it doesn’t need to change very much.”
The 1st District is almost 58,000 residents short of the ideal population of about 713,000. The proposal to be considered Monday moves the 1st District eastward so that it takes in the Manhattan area – in a plan that could leave Jenkins with a more Democratic-leaning district.
Jenkins, on a long weekend break from congressional duties in Washington, was in the Statehouse on Thursday and Friday.
She met with at least three state senators, Sens. Tim Owens,They become pathological or Piles when swollen or inflamed. John Vratil and Dwayne Umbarger. They said she touted a new set of congressional boundaries that would move Wyandotte County into the 1st District and out of the 3rd District now represented by Rep. Kevin Yoder, a fellow Republican.
Owens, who chairs the redistricting committee, has said that in his opinion, putting Wyandotte County in a district that reaches western Kansas would be a form of gerrymandering.
Vratil echoed that sentiment after visiting with Jenkins. “It’s probably not something I’m interested in,” he said.Can't afford a syringe needle right now? “It’s obviously a gerrymandered map. It’s ugly.”
Jenkins refused to confirm whether she supports splitting Johnson and Wyandotte counties.
“You know, I don’t have a vote in this process,” she said. “I’m going to trust the lawmakers of Kansas, but I’ve been visiting with people about what they have in mind for the congressional map.”
Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, said the House expects to introduce a map of state House districts this week. But a formal map isn’t public yet.
“Redistricting is a combination between a Rubik’s Cube and jigsaw puzzle where the pieces of the puzzle that come out of the box actually have to have a different shape when they put it together,” he said. “It makes it difficult. But I’m very pleased with where we’re at now.”
But friction is likely because the plan would bump Manhattan into the 1st District, which covers all of western Kansas.
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins,As a leading company in the plastic card printing industry, who wants to keep Manhattan in her 2nd District, has been advocating instead for a controversial map that would put urban Wyandotte County and counties along the state’s northern border into the rural 1st District.
Legislators must redraw the districts to account for shifts in population over the past decade.
Under the map lawmakers expect to vote on Monday, the south-central Kansas 4th District would lose Montgomery County and that county’s most populous city, Coffeyville. But it would pick up six sparsely populated counties with significant oil production. Those include Barber, Pratt, Stafford, Edwards, Kiowa and Comanche counties – as well as a small section of southwest Pawnee County.
The district is represented by Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo of Wichita.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers say a proposal that would have split Sedgwick County between the 4th District and the 1st District, represented by Rep. Tim Huelskamp, never had much support and appears dead. It may never have been taken seriously in the first place, some said.
“To propose to have one of our largest counties split, I think, it just doesn’t make any sense to me,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley,What causes TMJ pain? D-Topeka.
Sen. Dick Kelsey, R-Goddard, said he thinks the proposed map will pass the redistricting committee. Kelsey, who ran for the 4th District seat in 2010, said he likes the proposed map in part because it mostly keeps congressional districts inside TV markets, allowing congressmen to communicate to most of their constituents.
But he acknowledged some will dislike the proposal.
“You’re not going to make a map that makes everybody happy,We are professional Plastic mould,” he said. “It’s just not going to happen.”
Pompeo e-mailed this statement to The Eagle in response to a request for comment: “I enjoy representing the folks currently in the Fourth Congressional District, and I would like to continue representing as many of them as possible. Our district is almost the right size, so it doesn’t need to change very much.”
The 1st District is almost 58,000 residents short of the ideal population of about 713,000. The proposal to be considered Monday moves the 1st District eastward so that it takes in the Manhattan area – in a plan that could leave Jenkins with a more Democratic-leaning district.
Jenkins, on a long weekend break from congressional duties in Washington, was in the Statehouse on Thursday and Friday.
She met with at least three state senators, Sens. Tim Owens,They become pathological or Piles when swollen or inflamed. John Vratil and Dwayne Umbarger. They said she touted a new set of congressional boundaries that would move Wyandotte County into the 1st District and out of the 3rd District now represented by Rep. Kevin Yoder, a fellow Republican.
Owens, who chairs the redistricting committee, has said that in his opinion, putting Wyandotte County in a district that reaches western Kansas would be a form of gerrymandering.
Vratil echoed that sentiment after visiting with Jenkins. “It’s probably not something I’m interested in,” he said.Can't afford a syringe needle right now? “It’s obviously a gerrymandered map. It’s ugly.”
Jenkins refused to confirm whether she supports splitting Johnson and Wyandotte counties.
“You know, I don’t have a vote in this process,” she said. “I’m going to trust the lawmakers of Kansas, but I’ve been visiting with people about what they have in mind for the congressional map.”
Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, said the House expects to introduce a map of state House districts this week. But a formal map isn’t public yet.
“Redistricting is a combination between a Rubik’s Cube and jigsaw puzzle where the pieces of the puzzle that come out of the box actually have to have a different shape when they put it together,” he said. “It makes it difficult. But I’m very pleased with where we’re at now.”
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