Hidden Valley residents vow to sue over new Charlotte voting district map
CHARLOTTE (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) — The group started off outdoors of the govt centre in Uptown protesting the proposed alter.
A lot of donning blue clinical smocks, “We are in smocks currently mainly because our politicians are contaminated with corruption,” reported Concealed Valley resident Cedric Dean.
The group well prepared to have the voting precincts 42 and 82, the Concealed Valley neighborhood of Charlotte, eliminated from District 4 and additional to District 1 as component of the new Charlotte voting districts. This puts the Concealed Valley community in the similar district as Myers Park, South End, and Uptown.
A large blow for the oldest Black community in Charlotte.
“When you seem at the rates of the residences in Myers Park, why are you attempting to lump us in there with them,” included Dean. “You want to rate us out of our houses.”
As the metropolis council walked into the chambers, people today in attendance chanted Hidden Valley, permitting the council know they want their voices heard. Council acknowledged the team and spoke about the new map, some expressing it can be not getting absent the African American vote in Charlotte, but as an alternative earning it much better.
“I will state categorically that I did not tell the guide to shift precincts 42 and 82 out of District 4,” mentioned District 4 agent Renee Johnson.
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“The new District 1 with Concealed Valley in it will be 36 % Black, 51 % Democrats, and of those Democrats 56 percent of us are Black,” added District 3 agent Victoria Watlington.
Charlotte Metropolis Council voted 10 to 1 to approve the new map. Councilmember at-large Braxton Winston was the only ‘no’ vote. Hidden Valley inhabitants sustain the move was political, there will be a lawsuit and a achievable improve on Charlotte City Council.
“You see us now you might be going to see us later,” claimed Hidden Valley resident Blanche Penn. “Considering the fact that you said sure to this rather of indicating no to it, so now our vote is going to be no to you.”
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