Roundup of the absurd
On a Sunday editorial page full of peculiar arguments, let's first-off give kudos to where kudos are due by commending Athens Banner-Herald executive editor Jason Winders for an excellent column concerning the proposed State Senate redistricting plan. My former boss points out how ill-informed Rep. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) and Rep. Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) really are concerning this proposal. Others making sense about redistricting include Athens Banner-Herald associate editor Don Nelson, who points out the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce has some severe communication problems they need to address.
On the peculiar front, Chamber president Larry McKinney gives us some silly spin about said redistricting, while Athens Banner-Herald editorial page Jim Thompson - who I'm quite a fan of professionally and personally - misses the mark this time. He espouses on how The O'Reilly Factor and The Colbert Report are the same thing ... no matter that the former is featured on a 24-hour news network, while the latter is broadcast on Comedy Central.
Perhaps all of the good redistricting columns where taken, eh?
On the peculiar front, Chamber president Larry McKinney gives us some silly spin about said redistricting, while Athens Banner-Herald editorial page Jim Thompson - who I'm quite a fan of professionally and personally - misses the mark this time. He espouses on how The O'Reilly Factor and The Colbert Report are the same thing ... no matter that the former is featured on a 24-hour news network, while the latter is broadcast on Comedy Central.
Perhaps all of the good redistricting columns where taken, eh?
posted by Jmac at 1:00 PM
1 Comments:
The "two representatives are better than one" argument is completely ridiculous. Each representative would represent different populations, not overlapping ones. This is just Hudgens & Co. saying, "Hey, I'll give you 25 pennies for one quarter... ooh, look, you get 25 of them! WOW!!!"
Lame.
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