{"id":13450,"date":"2014-12-16T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/bipartisan-former-mayors-urge-new-north-carolina-general-assembly-to-pass-fair-redistricting-bill\/"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:39:00","slug":"bipartisan-former-mayors-urge-new-north-carolina-general-assembly-to-pass-fair-redistricting-bill","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/bipartisan-former-mayors-urge-new-north-carolina-general-assembly-to-pass-fair-redistricting-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Former Mayors Urge New North Carolina General Assembly to Pass Fair Redistricting Bill"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13450","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Richard Vinroot, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, and Charles Meeker, a Democratic former mayor of Raleigh, joined forces in a Charlotte Observer op-ed to call on the North Carolina General Assembly to end partisan gerrymandering.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7854}"],"related_issues":[103,169,2066],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>Richard Vinroot, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, and Charles Meeker, a Democratic former mayor of Raleigh, joined forces in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2014\/12\/10\/5375962\/were-from-opposing-parties-but.html#.VI8msCvF8qu\">Charlotte Observer op-ed<\/a> to call on the North Carolina General Assembly to end partisan gerrymandering. The two leaders represent North Carolinians to End Gerrymandering, an organization of which Common Cause North Carolina is a member.<\/p><p>The former mayors highlighted the partisan imbalance in the state&rsquo;s congressional district compared to the statewide vote and described the importance of having &ldquo;a government that fairly represents the people, and in which voters have confidence.&rdquo; North Carolina&rsquo;s majority Republican legislature drew congressional districts allowing Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/thevoterupdate.com\/trail\/?p=1933#.VI8s2CvF8qs\">to win 77 percent of seats despite winning only 55 percent of the votes<\/a> in 2014. Vinroot and Meeker advocated for a nonpartisan redistricting system because decades of partisan gerrymandering by both parties &ldquo;has undermined citizens&rsquo; confidence in our government, created highly partisan legislative districts and caused gridlock.&rdquo;<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2014\/12\/10\/5375962\/were-from-opposing-parties-but.html#.VI8tiyvF8qv\">Read the full op-ed.<\/a><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bipartisan Former Mayors Urge New North Carolina General Assembly to Pass Fair Redistricting Bill - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/bipartisan-former-mayors-urge-new-north-carolina-general-assembly-to-pass-fair-redistricting-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipartisan Former Mayors Urge New North Carolina General Assembly to Pass Fair Redistricting Bill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/bipartisan-former-mayors-urge-new-north-carolina-general-assembly-to-pass-fair-redistricting-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/bipartisan-former-mayors-urge-new-north-carolina-general-assembly-to-pass-fair-redistricting-bill\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/bipartisan-former-mayors-urge-new-north-carolina-general-assembly-to-pass-fair-redistricting-bill\/\",\"name\":\"Bipartisan Former Mayors Urge New North Carolina General Assembly to Pass Fair Redistricting Bill - 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