As some of you may know, I was planning to run for the North Carolina General Assembly.
I would have been the first openly-transgender candidate for such office in the history of North Carolina.
BUT...the NCGA was court-ordered to redraw state legislative Distrricts. I should note that no District in Wake County was REQUIRED to be redrawn, but the mapmasters in the NC GOP did it anyway.
The green and pink sections in the title picture were both part of the old District in which I intended to run, against an incumbent Republican, Chris Malone. The dark purple line to the South represents the old District line, and continues east along the red line...off the right side of the map.
The red line represents the new District line. The pink section is in the old District in which I planned to run. I live in the now-green section, a District controlled by a fellow Democrat. The red dot represents where I live.
The black line running east from where I live into the pink section….represents TWO THOUSAND FEET!!! They literally ran the District line to cut me out of the District I wanted to run in (they knew I was planning to run.)
You could not POSSIBLY get more blatant than this! Quite literally, they ran the line along the first major street east of me thhat they could...and the first major street north of me that they could.
Tell me that was accidental...and I got a bridge to sell ya!!
It would seem, at least, I won in that I have managed, by my candidacy, to have fired my Representative!