The state Senate GOP wants to bring to Queens the chamber’s first Asian-majority district to go along with an Orthodox Jewish-majority district in Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned.
The proposed changes — including the creation of a new Senate district in the Albany area — will be part of the once-a-decade redrawing of legislative district lines, which both houses of the Legislature will unveil Wednesday.
With the Asian population in Queens having grown by more than 120,000 over the past decade, the new Senate lines would create a district that would be 52% Asian, a source briefed on the plan said. The district would be based in Flushing.
Since an incumbent lawmaker does not live in the proposed district, the community can “elect a candidate of their choosing,” the source said.
Presently there are no Asian members in the Senate and just one in the Assembly.
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One should remember that the price of having “one of our own” (and this applies to all minorities groups), is that there will be fewer legislators who feel they need to cater to the interests of our group. Instead of three goyim who feel they can’t afford to alienate, we’ll have one Yid, and two goyim who won’t give us the time of day.
Note that in the past, the Republicans have supported incrasing the number of overwhelmingly African American districts, knowing that a side effect was to increase the number of Republicans elected overall.