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Redistricting Commission : so-called fair fight district that would combine U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett’s 5th District and U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman’s 9th District
With the deadline for a new Congressional map just over a week away, sources connected with the redistricting commission report that members of the state’s House delegation are on heightened alert, each wary that the seat that disappears could be theirs.
Phone calls from delegation members and their staffs have spiked, sources say, since a report last week that the commission could be leaning toward a so-called fair fight district that would combine U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett’s 5th District and U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman’s 9th District, pitting the two men against each other in November.
“It’s like they finally woke up and realized that come next week, one of them could be gone,” said one source connected with the commission. (Isherwood, PolitickerNJ)
