Is the horrible boundary between One and Five really necessary?
That is what happens with least change maps, where the prior map was itself a mess. I forget whether the prior map was a Dem gerry, or a compromise map, or whatever, but one thing it was, and is, not, is a good government map.
The 2001 map was a compromise map, though even then they changed as little as possible except for combining the 5th and 6th districts. They made the new 5th district as PVI-even as possible and pushed both incumbents into it.
And given where those incumbents lived (New Britain and Danbury), forced CT-05's strange shape and the bizarreness that is the western boundary of CT-01.
More from the Hartford Courant
here. The CT GOP isn't happy but can't do anything about it.
