Democrats say they鈥檒l join a bipartisan group of state lawmakers working on a new way to draw Congressional districts. But they are concerned about the timing.
Republicans on hope to get a Congressional redistricting plan together in a few months, so voters can decide on it in May. Senate Minority Leader Kenny Yuko of Richmond Heights said he鈥檚 wondering what鈥檚 the rush. 鈥淲e鈥檝e had an awful lot of time to work on this. We鈥檝e had an awful lot of time to think about this. And all of a sudden, right now we鈥檙e getting down to counting days on the calendar and saying this is really going to be a tight schedule we鈥檙e dealing with.鈥�
Yuko says he doesn鈥檛 want that lawmakers鈥� group to undermine some non-partisan groups that are in a drive to put their own Congressional redistricting plan before voters next year. Republicans say they鈥檙e not racing them to the ballot, but note that previous redistricting plans from citizens鈥� groups have failed.
