Thanks a lot, Ohio Democratic Party. People like me have spent the last month and a half — our pre-holiday time — diligently gathering signatures to repeal the GOP-created Congressional map that gives them a 12-4 advantage in a 50/50 state and creates no competitive districts.
Then on Monday a nonpartisan report, spearheaded by the League of Women Voters of Ohio and Ohio Citizen Action, came out, revealing the secrecy and borderline corruption behind the map-making process.
http://www.moneyinpoliticsohio.org/...
It turned out that the map wasn't drawn by the legislative committee charged with doing so but by a secret cabal controlled by House Speaker John Boehner, not legally part of the process. It turns out that the public hearings they held were all charades and that not one word spoken at those hearings meant anything.
That should have given us momentum and some muscle behind our demands. And despite a pessimistic story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer last week, we were well on track to get the signatures. And the Republicans knew it, and they did come back to the table tonight (after wasting the last week talking about abortion).