By: Inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/

Attacking gerrymandering these days is as popular as saying Wall Street needs reform. It's a truism; everybody agrees with that "gerrymandering is bad," just as everybody agrees that breathing is good.

Gerrymanders do get pretty ridiculous. Consider Maryland's 3rd congressional district:

Maryland's legislature designed this gerrymander to favor Democrats. And it worked: Maryland is represented by seven Democrats and one Republican.

You can probably go search a few terrible gerrymanders of your own; they're not exactly difficult to find. For the purposes of this post, however, I will be concentrating on one particular gerrymander: Arizona's 2nd congressional district.

To understand why this is a good gerrymander, see below the fold.

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John McCain was out of the torturous grip of the North Vietnamese for approximately one year when Congress passed Public Law 93-531 in 1974. Public Law 93-531 was called the Relocation Act, and was falsely justified by what "Peabody Coal Company's public relations and lobbying firms" falsely constructed  as the "Hopi-Navajo land dispute." This "range war" was not true. What was true, was lawyer John Boyden with the assimilated Hopi Tribal Council.

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Boyden formed a Hopi Tribal Council that consisted of several First Mesa Hopi who had been converted to Mormonism, based on an election in which about 10 percent of the Hopis on the reservation voted. The newly elected Tribal Council then hired Boyden as their lawyer.

John Boyden with his assimilated Hopi Tribal Council wanted Peabody Coal to strip mine Black Mesa after the natural resources had been discovered. More than 10,000 Navajo and 100 Hopi did not want Black Mesa stripped.

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