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From: Brumar895/24/2009 5:26:56 PM
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ACORN’s Plan For Gerrymandering Districts

An internal ACORN memo from January 26, 2004 reveals ACORN’s plans for future political campaigns including attempts at gerrymandering districts to support Democrats.

One measure they were planning in 2004 which passed successfully in 2006 was minimum wage increases in many states and federally.

Here is what they have to say about their “Swing Congressional District Project”:
(emphasis mine)

This is a long-term, multi-faceted project with the following goals:

a) Impact the post-2010 Congressional redistricting process by building progressive electoral majorities in swing state legislative districts in states where partisan control of legislative bodies is potentially in play.

b) Organize in 10 – 20 selected Congressional Districts where recent close elections and/or demographic shifts make them likely swing districts.

The strategy here is to build the long-term, targeted organizing and electoral capacity needed if we are to have a Congress with a progressive majority. The redistricting process is key, since it is unlikely that there are enough competitive House districts to end right-wing control of the House of Representative before 2012. But we need to start now.
The first step is to review the literature analyzing the redistricting process state-by-state, determine which states’ re-districting processes are in the hands of state legislatures (most), which state legislative bodies have a close enough Democrat-Republican ratio to be in play, and which state house and state senate districts in those states are competitive. With this information, one can then target appropriate legislative districts. We have identified an organizer with previous experience with 21st Century Democrats and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee who we would like to hire to develop this targeting plan.

Here are the rest of their 2005 projects and priorities:

1.) Bridge Funding
2.) Minimum Wage Ballot Initiatives
3.) Full-Scale Minority Voter Registration and Turnout Projects – New Jersey and Virginia
4.) Long-Term Voter Registration – Neighborhoods and High Schools
5.) Precinct Networks
6.) Swing Congressional and State Legislative Districts Project
7.) Election Administration Project

You can download the memo here: Political Strategies 2005 & Beyond.
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