The Mideast: Dead?

[Oakvale]

While I don't mean to excuse Riley or the Assembly, part of the blame must rest with the left-wing members who left the region in a fit of pique, transforming it from a conservative-leaning but thriving nexus of heated debate into another bland one-party stronghold.

It also leaves me in an amusing position since I'm open to consolidation in theory (although the proposal to merge the Pacific and the Midwest, and the South and the Mideast wouldn't leave us all that much better off - two boring one-party strongholds instead of four?) but not if this bicameral amendment nonsense passes. I'd also have to make sure that the Pacific doesn't get screwed if that were to happen.

[Oakvale]

^ I'm obviously not disagreeing for a moment that the current Governor and current members of the Assembly (er, member) are the ones at fault for this final stage of terminal decline, but it's something that was sadly inevitable once it became a one-party region.

If we're going to have the consolidation conversation again it's going to take an admission from the Right that the current situation is untenable and a guarantee from the Left that new system isn't going to be gerrymandered into a lopsided left-wing stranglehold on the remaining Senate seats.