Signs that read, “Don’t Fairfax Me” and “Vote No,” are reportedly prevalent in rural Virginia for good reason. Virginia Democrats’ redistricting campaign aims to disenfranchise rural Virginians. The referendum, which would split heavily populated Fairfax County across five congressional districts, is a deceptive power grab.
The April 21 election will decide the fate of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts. Under its current map, there are six Democratic and five Republican representatives. Experts forecast that if the partisan gerrymandering passes, there will be 10 Democrats and one Republican representing Virginia. That would be strange in a state where 47% of voters supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Democrats are using duplicitous tactics to dupe low-information voters into voting in favor of redistricting. The language on the redistricting referendum ballot states, “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections.”
That’s a strange lead-in question. Everyone should want “fairness,” particularly in elections and on our ballots. Perhaps the better question for the ballot should be whether Virginians would like to “adopt new congressional districts to disenfranchise neighbors who are independents and/or vote for Republican candidates.”
Equally biased and more honest, but somehow not allowed.
Democratic leaders aren’t even trying to hide their motivations. President pro tempore of Virginia’s Senate, Louise Lucas, posted a telling response on X to criticism from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who said that the Virginia redistricting referendum is a “brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy.”
Lucas didn’t deny the accusation. Instead, she wrote, “You all started it, and we f**king finished it.”
Classy.
Virgina Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, did a complete turnaround on redistricting. In February, she smiled and cackled as she signed the Virginia General Assembly’s redistricting bill. In 2020, however, when she supported bipartisan legislation to prevent gerrymandering, she said, “Virginians should choose their representatives—not the other way around.”
But like other radical leftists in Virginia, Gov. Spanberger now seems to believe that Northern Virginians have the duty to colonize the rest of Virginia.
In fact, a Fairfax liberal said the quiet part out loud: We’re better than you. In response to what a media report suggests is “Fairfaxphobia,”—in which other Virginians fear being governed by Fairfax County’s policies and norms—a Fairfax resident said, “I guess they’re saying ‘Don’t Fairfax’ Virginia, because obviously we are a much more educated, classy, professional, employed area, and we, of course, are going to vote ‘yes’ on this.”
This colonial push is really a strange perspective for liberals, who tend to pay so much lip service to inclusivity, diversity, fairness, and local control. It seems their “Be Kind” and “Coexist” car magnets, and “Hate Has No Home Here” yard signs don’t extend to ideologically diverse neighbors.
What Democrats have right with their deceptive ballot language is that “fairness” in elections and representation is important. They’re just lying that redistricting would do anything to make the state’s elections fairer.
Virginians should vote ‘no’ on the redistricting referendum.
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