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BPR / Blue Ridge Public Radio
January 10, 2018
Tuesday's ruling by federal judges that North Carolina's Congressional district maps are illegal could have wide ranging implications for politics at the ... “Almost no matter how they redraw those lines, they going to take most likely some Republicans out of the 11th Congressional district, Mark MeadowsÃÂ ...
Northwest Herald
December 19, 2017
“I don't own a large corporation, so I don't feel that I'll benefit from it much,” said Mark Terwilliger, who was visiting Crystal Lake from North Carolina. ... Bill Foster, D-Naperville, who represents the 11th Congressional District, said the tax plan is a “massive Christmas gift” to large corporations and wealthyÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
November 15, 2017
Overnight, the 11th, the most up-for-grabs congressional district in North Carolina, became the most safely Republican. .... Sanders that states should draw congressional districts to make them nearly identical in population, and a slew of cases afterward held that each district in a state should have as equalÃÂ ...
Mountain Xpress
November 6, 2017
Not long ago, Western North Carolina's 11th Congressional District was disputed turf. It changed ... The League of Women Voters hosted the 5K to draw attention to the meandering line between the 10th and 11th congressional districts in Asheville, and the larger redistricting question it signifies. Photo byÃÂ ...
News & Observer
October 18, 2017
Patrick McHenry, a Republican from Denver in Lincoln County, represents the 10th district which includes all or parts of eight counties in western North Carolina. Mark Meadows of Asheville, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus in the 11th district, which was redrawn in 2011 and went from havingÃÂ ...
The Nation.
September 27, 2017
Jeff Jackson was a young prosecutor living in Charlotte, North Carolina, when a seat in the State Senate unexpectedly opened up in 2014. ... That's what the Legislature did with North Carolina's congressional districts. ... As a result, the state climbed from 43rd in voter participation in 1996 to 11th in 2012.
Mountain Xpress (blog)
September 22, 2017
Dividing a territorial unit into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the opposition in as few districts as possible. Gerrymandering is legal; however, racial and extreme partisan gerrymandering are not. The NC state legislature isÃÂ ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
September 21, 2017
... national attention on Western North Carolina and the calculated political lines running through it. In Friday's episode "Divide & Conquer," Mayor Esther Manheimer is interviewed by "Vice" correspondent Gianna Toboni and talks about how Asheville, once completely in the 11th Congressional District wasÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
September 21, 2017
A dramatic redistricting effort spearheaded by North Carolina Republicans carved much of the liberal city out of Shuler's competitive 11th district six years ago, pushing it into the ... C., stands in a neighborhood in North Asheville that's split between the state's 11th and 10th Congressional districts on Sept. 6.
Asheville Citizen-Times
April 24, 2017
The Republican candidate in a Kansas congressional district where Republicans usually cruise to victory won a special election earlier this month by only ... Coffay grew up outside Blue Ridge, Georgia, in a county that shares part of its northern border with Cherokee County, North Carolina, and graduatedÃÂ ...
Hendersonville Lightning
October 1, 2017
... gets that how impossible it would be for a Democrat to win in North Carolina's heavily Republican 11th Congressional District. “Impossible?
The Nation.
September 27, 2017
Since they came to power in 2011, North Carolina's Republican ... That's what the Legislature did with North Carolina's congressional districts. ... As a result, the state climbed from 43rd in voter participation in 1996 to 11th in ...
BlueRidgeNow.com
September 23, 2017
... the U.S. House of Representatives 11th Congressional District race. ... for the people of North Carolina and the U.S.; it's about making money.
Mountain Xpress (blog)
September 22, 2017
... follows line of 10th and 11th congressional districts in Asheville ... of the current Congressional Districts in Western North Carolina, and how it ...
NBCNews.com
September 21, 2017
A dramatic redistricting effort spearheaded by North Carolina ... that's split between the state's 11th and 10th Congressional districts on Sept. 6.
Asheville Citizen-Times
September 21, 2017
... the 11th Congressional District was split into two conservative districts. ... get when you add Asheville to the rest of Western North Carolina," a ...
Hendersonville Lightning
September 20, 2017
In the 11th Congressional District, any Democratic nominee faces a ... of the most Republican-leaning districts in North Carolina, a state rich in ...
Mountain Xpress
September 17, 2017
Since 2008, the high-water mark for women in North Carolina when ... Council and redrawing the 11th Congressional District, putting most of ...
The Highland County Press
March 4, 2017
Rep. Jim Jordan serves Ohio's 4th Congressional District and is the former chairman and a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus.
The Highland County Press
March 4, 2017
Rep. Jim Jordan serves Ohio's 4th Congressional District and is the former chairman and a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus.
WLOS
February 25, 2017
Heath Shuler in the 11th Congressional District primary in 2012. "I was tired of watching our Democratic representative vote with the Republicans in Congress and it seemed no one else would call him to task," he said.
Hendersonville Lightning
February 22, 2017
... Glenville home and surrounding 5.96 acres in an exclusive gated community in June for almost $1.3 million, the Franklin Press reported.
Mountain Xpress (blog)
February 18, 2017
The Sylva-based nonprofit environmental watchdog group Canary Coalition has released the following video of a demonstration outside of Congressman Mark Meadows Waynesville office on Friday, February 17.
Asheville Citizen-Times
January 16, 2017
When the Democratic Party repeatedly bashes conservatives for racially gerrymandering N.C. congressional districts, they fail to mention that it was actually a tactic of the legislative Democrats in the 1980s to hold some districts from further ...
Lima Ohio
January 12, 2017
Jim Jordan serves Ohio's 4th Congressional District and is the former chairman and a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus.
WTVD-TV
January 11, 2017
Many of those pushing redistricting reform in North Carolina use Iowa as an example of how it can work. "Iowa's been successful," said Rick Glazier of the NC Justice Center.
Charlotte Observer
January 10, 2017
Meadows, just elected to his third term from western North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, says repealing the Affordable Care Act without a backup plan could be bad for the federal government's growing debt.
Nadig Newspapers
January 5, 2017
In the state's black-majority 3rd and 11th congressional districts, one in Columbus and the other in Cleveland, the black Democratic incumbents won by a combined 422,821 votes, with Clinton not far behind.
Avery Journal Times
December 28, 2016
Following a ruling passed down by a U.S. District Court panel in early February, North Carolina lawmakers found themselves scrambling to draw new congressional districts before the March primary election. While many N.C. counties remained unchanged in ...
WRAL.com
December 23, 2016
A look at their congressional districts might explain not only that, but why political partisanship runs so deep and the nation is so polarized.
Nashua Telegraph
December 22, 2016
Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Sam Johnson of Texas and Tom Price of Georgia, who is Trump's choice to be secretary of Health and Human Services.
Asheville Citizen-Times
December 5, 2016
Shuler declined to run again after the state General Assembly redrew the 11th Congressional District to make it more favorable to Republican candidates.
Asheville Citizen-Times
November 30, 2016
Legislators approved a new congressional district map in February after their previous effort was struck down in the courts in a similar case.
McClatchy Washington Bureau
November 29, 2016
... popular "drain the swamp" catchphrase and said Americans had a "deficit of trust" in Washington. Meadows, from North Carolina's 11th Congressional District in the western part of the state, is a leading conservative voice in Republican politics in ...
WHIO
October 21, 2016
Washington - Hillary Clinton appears to be displaying strength in the crucial battleground states of North Carolina and Florida among voters casting ballots before Election Day, and may also be building an early vote advantage in Arizona and Colorado ...
Charlotte Observer
October 20, 2016
North Carolina Republicans have jockeyed for more influence in Washington and, thanks to carefully drawn districts by state lawmakers, all but one GOP incumbent is positioned to return to the U.S.
BlueRidgeNow.com
October 16, 2016
In addition to fighting for conservative values, Meadows is dedicated to providing top-notch constituent services to North Carolina's 11th Congressional District and is committed to upholding his Christian values and conservative principles. Meadows ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
October 15, 2016
Both Tom Hill and the federal judge hearing the case said early in Hill's appeal of his loss to Rick Bryson in the June Democratic primary for the 11th Congressional District that the odds of Hill winning were slim. They were right. U.S. District Court ...
SaintPetersBlog (blog)
October 14, 2016
Trump had built up a modest field operation in the state, though - unlike neighboring North Carolina - the Trump camp never considered its 13 electoral votes as crucial to his path to 270.
San Angelo Standard Times
October 12, 2016
In a USA Today survey of Republican lawmakers, Conaway, who represents the 11th Congressional District, was the ninth in Texas to be contacted.
WLOS
October 12, 2016
"Absolutely ridiculous," said Debbie Meadows, one of the Women for Trump and wife of 11th Congressional district Republican Mark Meadows.
Asheville Citizen-Times
October 12, 2016
The nation's movement away from natural medicines that dominated part of the second half of the 20th century also contributed to a dwindling demand for the types of botanicals that thrive in Western North Carolina, said Greg Cumberford, a board vice ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
October 12, 2016
Democrat Rick Bryson and Republican incumbent Mark Meadows are running in the 11th Congressional District, which includes most of Western North Carolina except eastern and southern Buncombe County and most of Asheville. Here's what the two had toÃÂ ...
The American Prospect
September 8, 2016
... Democratic vice presidential candidate, and Senator Tim Kaine, second from left, and Representative Marcia Fudge, left, hold hands together after Clinton speaks at the 11th Congressional District Labor Day festival at Luke Easter Park in Cleveland ...
Go Blue Ridge
September 8, 2016
According to the Watauga Democrat, the new 11th district would encompass 15 entire western counties in the state and most of Watauga, and would put the home of Fifth District Rep. Virginia Foxx of Banner Elk in the 11th ... If the new map were to be ...
Avery Journal Times
September 7, 2016
Avery County would join 14 other entire counties and part of Watauga to form North Carolina's 11th District on a proposed Congressional map released Aug. 29 by a nonpartisan panel of former state justices and judges.
The News Tribune
September 7, 2016
Tim Kaine, D-Va., right, arrives to speak at the 11th Congressional District Labor Day festival at Luke Easter Park in Cleveland, Ohio, Monday, Sept.
Aurora Sentinel
September 7, 2016
Trump, the Republican nominee, is set to campaign in Virginia and North Carolina on Tuesday, two critical states in his path to the presidency.
The Detroit News
September 7, 2016
Clinton is up by 5 points or less in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Nevada and North Carolina, with larger cushions in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and New Hampshire.
Monitor
September 6, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pauses to drink water after coughing as she speaks at the 11th Congressional District Labor Day festival at Luke Easter Park in Cleveland, Ohio, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik).
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