Sorry that this is happening, Sue. Gerrymandering!

This redistricting plan is ridiculous and absolutely disenfranchises Eldersburg and Sykesville, lessening our representation. Let the Governor know this is a bad plan that will hurt our community.

This is not a good legislation at all. This will certainly weaken our community!

There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for this redistricting, except a "power grab" of representation from Carroll County. Carroll is already treated like a stepchild of Maryland. Whatever your political leanings, it is not fair to divide the county like this for the sake of manipulating votes.

I totally agree with the above comment (Kathy).

Has anyone brought up the school issues that would arise from this? Several students currently living in Sykesville would have to change schools, as well as have to travel further distances in order to attend Howard Co Schools.

Im glad that when I decided to purchase a home back in May, I went north. I would be livid if I would have purchased in Sykesville/Eldersburg thinking Id be a homeowner in Carroll Co just to find out that our government would make it Howard Co.

The legislative redistricting doesn't have anything to do with school districts and doesn't make any part of Carroll County into Howard except for the sake of legislative districts. While I don't agree with gerrymandering at all, this is nothing new.

This is a pretty one-sided story. What does Sue think the actual effects will be? Also, couldn't you guys find anybody but Sue to comment? I'm curious what the state house has to say about this, and whether Sue's quote that "past experience shows us the challenges for a legislator to represent two different counties” is actually true. Other than in Carroll and Frederick Counties, there are no counties in the metropolitan Baltimore-DC corridor that are not split into multiple Congresional districts. Howard and Montgomery County seem to be doing just fine under that scheme.

I suspect that Del. Krebs is just as outraged about the plan to remove her from her own district (she lives north of the dividing line), forcing her to compete with the other delegates from Carroll. It's truly a sad state of affairs, as she's probably the only sane one in the group. Given the choice between one of these dimwits and representation from a Howard delegate, I'd take the Howard delegate any day sight unseen!

Sorry, folks. This is what you get when your county commissioners continue to stick their fingers in the Governor's eye over things like PlanMD and the Marriage Equality bill. You had to know this retaliation would come. If you voted for any of these commissioners, you are getting exactly what you wanted!

Hey Joe, who does that quote from "Doug" above sound like?

Doug's got a point here...based on our delegation's respective track record, Carroll could do much better, but it's not Krebs who's the problem. She has however become more jaded and overtly partisan in order to defend herself from attacks by Helminiak and others who have tried to paint her as less conservative. It's not true and were she to be some Tea Party nut, no sane person would want her representing them anyway.

All I can say is bye Krebs, dont let the door hit you on the way out. Now maybe Carroll County can elect a Delegate that is for Carroll County .

I agree wholeheartly with you Bonnie. The Caroll County Legislative Delegation goes down to Annapolis does what in dancing is called soft shoe , then comes back and blast the Governor every chance they get. We had Democratic candidates like Riley & Walsh who could have kept the boundry lines the same and legislative power back to Carroll County if they were elected . So what did Carroll do is send down to Annapolis the same failures that were already there .So what happens now we all fail by their presence.