Thursday, December 2, 2021

Redistricting could shuffle deck for candidates

Although statewide legislative and congressional candidates have already begun to register across Kentucky and here in the Fourth Legislative District, one important issue remains for all legislative races in 2022 – Redistricting.

The process may completely alter the boundaries for districts in races where candidates have already filed, either making them ineligible to run there or even pitting Republican or Democratic incumbents against each other.

Republican lawmakers plan to quickly pass new political maps during the upcoming legislative session, giving the public just about a week to see exactly what Kentucky’s state House, state Senate and congressional districts will look like before they are ... for the rest of this article see the Dec. 2, 2021 full edition of The Crittenden Press.