47 ABC quotes Johnny exposing dark-of-night Democratic redistricting power grab
Original headline: "UPDATE: Maryland House of Delegates Passes Redistricting Bill - Republicans on Eastern Shore outraged"
What you need to know
The Democratic Supermajority rammed a mid-decade redistricting bill through Annapolis with one barely concealed objective — flip Maryland’s only Republican congressional seat. The commission they stood up to do it never held an in-person meeting. The maps moved through the building in the dark of night. The Eastern Shore was given no real chance to be heard.
Johnny called it exactly what it was: political from the beginning, designed to silence the one part of the state Annapolis can’t already count on, and pushed through with the kind of process that wouldn’t pass the smell test in a high school student council.
He voted no. The entire Eastern Shore delegation voted no. That doesn’t stop the bill — when one party holds a supermajority, it doesn’t have to listen — but it puts on the record exactly who was willing to do this to the Shore and exactly who stood up against it.
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It's been political from the beginning, you know the commission that was created, there was no in-person meetings, it was kind of done in the dark of night.
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This is a summary published with attribution. Read the full article at 47 ABC (WMDT) (Ronnell Foreman), originally published February 3, 2026.
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