{"id":904,"date":"2010-02-26T00:24:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=904"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:28:10","slug":"uticaeditorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/02\/26\/uticaeditorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Utica NY paper calls on Sen Griffo &amp; Assemblywoman Destito to oppose prison-based gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Utica New York <i>Observer-Dispatch<\/i>, is calling for their state senator and assemblywoman to support  <a href=\"http:\/\/open.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bill\/S6725-2009\">S6725<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/open.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bill\/A9834-2009\">A9834<\/a> which would eliminate prison-based gerrymandering in state, county and municipal governments in the state.  The paper calls prison-based gerrymandering &#8220;absurd&#8221; and &#8220;wrong&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead the editorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/opinion\/x1694766272\/Our-view-Don-t-count-prisoners-with-voters\">Our view: Don\u2019t count prisoners with voters. Redraw districts following 2010 Census to reflect true constituency<\/a> published on Feb 26, 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>Or their previous coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/news\/x1650244717\/1-2-of-Rome-wards-residents-are-prisoners\">1\/2 of Rome ward&#8217;s residents are prisoners<br \/>\nGroup says inmates should be excluded when drawing district boundaries<\/a>, by Jennifer Fusco Feb 18, 2010\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/article\/20100128\/NEWS\/301289884\">State prisoners could become unlikely political prize<\/a> Jan 28, 2010\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/01\/07\/oneida-editorial\/\">Our view: Don\u2019t count prisoners as constituents<\/a>, editorial, January 6, 2010\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/news\/x1671993459\/Should-prisoners-count-when-drawing-legislative-districts\">Should prisoners count when drawing legislative districts?<\/a> by Jennifer Fusco, Jan 2, 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utica New York Observer-Dispatch calls prison-based gerrymandering &#8220;absurd&#8221; and says their state senator and assemblywoman should support reform bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}