{"id":1414,"date":"2010-06-30T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2010-06-30T12:46:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:46:22","slug":"wamc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/06\/30\/wamc\/","title":{"rendered":"WAMC&#8217;s Legislative Gazette story on prison-based gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Lucas on WAMC&#8217;s Legislative Gazette in Albany interviews Sen. Eric Schneiderman and Charlie Albanetti of <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenactionny.org\/\">Citizen Action<\/a> about legislative proposals to end prison-based gerrymandering in New York State.  The practice of using prison counts to draw legislative districts inflates the political representation of some communities and dilutes the representation of others.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Griffo is also interviewed about his opposition to reform. He concedes that it&#8217;s ok for <a href=\"\/factsheets\/ny\/13_counties.pdf\">13 rural counties<\/a> to reject the prison counts when drawing districts, but he argues that changing the state redistricting data is somehow going to affect federal funding based on federal Census data. That&#8217;s just wrong. Don&#8217;t take my word or Charlie Albanetti&#8217;s word for it. Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/opinion\/x1694766272\/Our-view-Don-t-count-prisoners-with-voters\">editorial board of Senator Griffo&#8217;s hometown paper<\/a> supports ending prison-based gerrymandering in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wamc\/news.newsmain?action=article&#038;ARTICLE_ID=1665467\">segment<\/a> starts at 13:40 and runs until 16:55.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great radio interview with Senator Schneiderman and Charlie Albanetti. Senator Griffo is quoted repeating the same long-debunked myths and objections to reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}