This is among the redistricting scenarios drawn up by David Wasserman, House editor of the Cook Political Report, given that New York will lose a congressional seat next year. Wasserman's map shows the Buffalo-based district of Rep. Brian Higgins, a Democrat, moving southward. Rep. Chris Jacobs, an Orchard Park Republican, would represent NY-23, which combined much of Jacobs' current district with that of outgoing Rep. Tom Reed. Meanwhile, Rep. Joe Morelle, a Rochester-area Democrat, would see his district stretch westward to take in Niagara County.
WASHINGTON – "The Earmuff District" – that strange gerrymander of a congressional district that connected voters in Buffalo with their counterparts in Rochester via a thin strip of land along Lake Ontario – died a decade ago.
This is among the redistricting scenarios drawn up by David Wasserman, House editor of the Cook Political Report, given that New York will lose a congressional seat next year. Wasserman's map shows the Buffalo-based district of Rep. Brian Higgins, a Democrat, moving southward. Rep. Chris Jacobs, an Orchard Park Republican, would represent NY-23, which combined much of Jacobs' current district with that of outgoing Rep. Tom Reed. Meanwhile, Rep. Joe Morelle, a Rochester-area Democrat, would see his district stretch westward to take in Niagara County.
