here.

Achieving parity with the Democrats in campaign spending would be no small feat. Yet it appears possible.

The full story at the Wall Street Journal here.

When the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it was approving Georgia’s new House, Senate and Congressional district maps, it was the first time ever that all three Georgia maps had been “pre-cleared” on the first try.

“I am proud to say that this year was the first time Republicans ever controlled the redistricting process and both the process and the product were very different than anything Georgia has seen before,” said former state senator Mitch Seabaugh, R-Sharpsburg. Seabaugh, now deputy state treasurer, served as chairman of the Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee this summer.

full story here.

Some interesting Patterico Pontifications.

The vigil starts tonight as America waits for Texas Attorney General Abbott to promptly withdraw the Texas photo ID law from administrative review of the Holder Department of Justice and allow the courts to decide the issue. 

When will he give the signal and refuse to allow the games DOJ played with South Carolina. 

Who says you have to take the first punch by giving DOJ a chance to do the right thing.  

We are waiting on leadership… and the press release.

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Find the complaint here

Here.  The complaint can be found here.

The Foundry on South Carolina Voter ID objection.

“South Carolina made the grievous error of submitting the state’s new voter ID law to the Justice Department for review, rather than going straight to federal court where it would get an impartial hearing. The history of this Justice Department over the past three years, from the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case to the refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, has been one in which raw politics and ideology are driving law enforcement decisions.

Holder’s flawed outlook on voter ID laws, as he outlined it recently in a speech at the LBJ Library in Texas, matches the racial paranoia of the Democratic National Committee and the NAACP, each of which claims erroneously that voter ID laws are an attempt to suppress minority votes comparable to Jim Crow. This is a historically preposterous idea. But there was no way that South Carolina was going to get a fair, objective, and nonpartisan review of its voter ID law from this Justice Department, particularly given the parallel views of the radicals hired into career civil service positions within the Civil Rights Division.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday attacked the recall process currently underway to unseat him, calling it “unusual” for duplicates and obviously fake names to be allowed on petitions. 

“Unusual” is an understatement. I could think of some adjectives that are not so diplomatic.

Full story @ Politico here.

Here: This is only the second time in Kentucky’s history in which the Democrats have held one house of the legislature and the Republicans the other at the time of redistricting — the first being 10 years ago when the GOP was fairly new at running a chamber, in this case the Senate.