Gerrymandering?

Local Morning Radio Entertainment Host Andrew Tallman Mckay still doesn't know what Gerrymandering actually is...........Neither does Steve Stroberger, Mike Kohler, and/or their sycophantics...

Based upon Thursday's ridiculous spectacle of a meeting engineered by Mike Kohler's office secretary Steve Stroberger---a new "attack" they are attempting to level at me is that I have "Gerrymandered" my district.

He (Stroberger) is actually unhappy that the rushed 2021 process resulted in him being districted out of District 2.  

But that's the way it shook out, that's what happened.  It wasn't Gerrymandering though.

That fiction was disabused the last time it rearead it's ugly head on local radio fraud Andrew "Tallman" McKay's garbage morning show.  Read all about that here.

But here are the cliff's notes.  And, the context is important, too, Tallman, Stroberger, Kohler, and Conrad.  Pay close attention.

I wanted to wait, I did NOT want to rush redistricting in 2021, that is on the record and it is clear. Rather --I wanted to wait until 2023 in order to attempt to undertake the process without rushing and to do it right.  Doug Underhill demanded it be rushed and done in 2021.  He received support in that from the rest of the board--- so I reluctantly got to work and was able to pull it all together and work to get D1's part done..(Counties are statutorily prohibited from undertaking redistricting in even numbered years)

But make no mistake:  I voiced early and often, publicly, privately, on the radio, at workshops and BCC meetings-----that  I wanted to take back Perdido Key in the process (the 2001 boundaries) and  also I'd have to GIVE away precincts I had won in every election.   In doing so, I'd be taking  on precincts that Doug Underhill won.  That's not Gerrymandering, geniuses Steve and Tallman.  Do some basic research before you open your mouths with that garbage.

Gerrymandering = artificially manipulating a district for maximum political advantage.

NOT Gerrymandering = giving away precincts I had won in the previous 5 elections...

From my 2021 post on this topic--for your further edification:

"Apparently, at least one radio host locally is really unhappy with the D1 elected officials'  (Me, Kevin Adams, and Vicki Campbell) proposed re-districted map.  I've discussed this proposed map with each of them--my peer D1 elected officials--- on multiple occasions, and they are supportive of the draft map we completed on 10-5-2021.

In fact, in the week since the meeting I haven't received any negative constituent communications on the proposed new D1 map.  I've received positive feedback from several.  Most seem generally agreeable to the draft map.

But at least one lone radio host is not, though.

Andrew "Tallman" McKay, who has increasingly displayed a weird sort of soft-spot for Commissioner Doug Underhill, is apparently now attempting to gin up opposition (that does not currently exist) to the draft district map generated at the first joint meeting between the BCC and School Board early last week.  He, McKay, apparently doesn't like the maps. all the precincts we are giving back to D2 in our proposed map (61, 99, and 75) are precincts I carried by large margins in each of my last contested elections.  Look it up.  In addition to that, I'm taking a precinct where Doug won a slim majority in his last election and where I am not popular due to the fact I supported opening Beach Access #4.

If it was "Gerrymandering" (which it isn't, by the way) I would be looking to offload precincts where I lost or where I did not do well and looking to pick up where my enemies did poorly.  Think.

I'm not doing that.

So before anyone insinuates I'm "Gerrymandering" McKay, (or Tallman, or whatever his name is), the office intern, the secretary, the water shouldering Underhill sycophants, anyone---they  should look it up and figure out what it means before lapping-up and swallowing ridiculous insinuations not based in fact..."