Wednesday, February 28. 1979
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Amendment to challenge reapportionment proposal
By GENE LINN Staff Reporter
An amendment to the Kansas House reapportionment bill will be offered to the House today, but State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Colo., said the amendment would split the KU student vote.
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, will offer the amendment.
The bill, which is being heard on the House floor today, would create a new district in east Lawrence and push Glover's 44th district slightly west.
The 43rd district, represented by State Rep. John H. Vogel, R-Lawrence, would move east and be entirely outside Lawrence.
The 4th district, which is represented by State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, would still include the northwest and southwest corners of the city.
Sobach drew up the Douglas County section of the redistricting bill based on 1980 census data.
"Mr. Vogel is trying to grymander the KU students out of a vote." Glover said. "It is really embarrassing."
Vogel said he was not trying to play partisan politics.
"Basically, my amendment would keep the western part of the city together," he said.
However, Glover said Vogel's amendment would take away some of the students in his constituency and place him in a district with two possible Republican House candidates.
"There are different ways Vogel could go," Glover said. "He has been encouraged by the likes of Morris Kay in preparing his amendment."
Kay is chairman of the state Republican Committee.
Glover said, "Vogel's amendment affects
me but me does not affect Vogel at all, and I think that is highly questionable.
Vogel said that charges that he had outside help in writing the amendment were "a bit of a leap."
"I drew up this plan a long time ago," he said. "I wonder who has been helping them with the project."
Kay said that he did not help Vogel write his amendment, but that he strongly supported it.
County, Republican Chairman John Lungsturm, KU lecturer of law, said his main concern was to see that Democrats did not challenge the Douglas County districts.
"I've heard that some people very close to
Democratic Gov. John Carlin have taken an interest in the county redistricting," he
He said he did not know the names of these Carlin aides.
Lungsturm said Solbach's plan for the county favored the Democratic party because it would create a new district in which which has traditionally voted Democrat.
Glover said the decision between Vogel's amendment and the House plan for Douglas had not been finalized.
"It is too close to call," he said, "Keeping the House bill's version depends on getting a few Republicans to vote with me and sure all the Democrats vote with me."
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