Members of the Virginia House of Delegates’ Elections Subcommittee voted this morning to "indefinitely" pass by Senator Creigh Deeds’ Bipartisan Redistricting Commission bill—which, in legislative speak, means that once again the bill is dead.
The bill, SB 926, was unanimously passed by the Senate and would have established a Bipartisan Election Commission with the intent of taking redistricting the state and congressional districts out of partisan hands. City Councilor David Brown thought it stood a chance this year, as he wrote in C-VILLE last week.
Republican Delegates John Cosgrove, S. Chris Jones, Steve Landes and Jeff Frederick voted to kill the bill, while Democratic Delegates Rosalyn Dance and David Englin wanted to keep it alive.