Secret Mapmaker Behind NC League of Conservation Voters Scheme Finally Revealed
North Carolina General Assembly
Senator Warren Daniel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Secret Mapmaker Behind NC League of Conservation Voters Scheme Finally Revealed
NC League of Conservation Voters is asking a court to order into law maps they created in secret
The activist political group wouldn’t reveal who created their secret maps, but admitted today it was their own lead litigator arguing the case
Now, LCV is asking the court to shield their lawyer/mapmaker from any and all questioning on the maps LCV wants ordered into law
Reminder: A Democratic expert in the same case told the court the outcome from the LCV maps is an extreme partisan outlier
Raleigh, N.C. — The N.C. League of Conservation Voters (LCV), a Democratic political organization led in part by the husband of a Democratic state senator, is asking a court to throw out the state legislature’s enacted districts and order into law maps the group created in secret.
Here’s what LCV asked the court to do: “…the Court should order Defendants to prepare for, administer, and conduct the 2022 primary and general elections under the Optimized [LCV] Maps.”
For weeks, LCV refused to even disclose who created their proposed maps, even though they’re asking a court to order them into law.
But in a motion filed today, the political activist organization admitted that the person who “directed the creation” of the maps was their own lead litigator, attorney Sam Hirsch, and that he shouldn’t have to answer any questions about the map the group wants to impose on North Carolina. LCV also admitted their lawyer had assistance from unnamed “consulting experts.”
Sen. Warren Daniel (R-Burke), who co-chairs the Senate Redistricting Committee, said, “The brazen hypocrisy is remarkable. We drew districts in open committee in full view of the public. Now a political action group hired a litigator to draw maps in secret, wants those maps ordered into law, and insists the mapmaker should be immune from any public scrutiny of proposed districts that produce results another Democratic expert panned as a massive gerrymander.”
An outside analysis of LCV’s proposed congressional maps concluded they would result in six Republicans and eight Democrats elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Dr. Jowei Chen, a Democratic expert witness in the very same case, told the court that a congressional map with eight Democratic seats is almost a statistical impossibility, with the result occurring zero times in thousands of simulated maps.
Bottom line: LCV wants a court to throw out maps drawn in full of view of the public and replace them with maps LCV hired a lawyer to draw in secret with unnamed consultants, and they don’t want anybody to be able to ask their mapmakers any questions.
