“But even their considerable leadership experience could not bring the Commission’s legislative Republicans and Democrats together.”ĭeWine “believed it was best for him to act as a middleman" and so negotiated with Republicans and Democrats separately, carrying messages back and forth, to no avail. “The statewide officeholders entered the discussions about the map filed with the Commission by the Republican legislative leaders with the sincere hope and desire to reach a bipartisan compromise on a ten-year map,” a brief filed by the trio said. But mostly, they spent the brief's 60 pages entering into the court record their failed efforts to strike a bipartisan compromise. The three officials used their joint filing to ask justices to dismiss the cases and, even if they go forward, to remove them as individual parties.
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