If the democrats were less naïve, they never would have done redistricting reform in the first place and they would have been able to redistrict Maliotakis out of a career and gerrymander upstate and the hudson valley into permanently safe blue districts.

States with permanent democratic legislative majorities should play as dirty as red states do until congress agrees to nationwide anti-gerrymandering laws or an amendment.

What NY and CA did with non-biased redistricting commissions was unilateral disarmament. So now, on a nationwide scale, the Dems are taking high-minded rhetoric to a knife fight.