Gov To Get GOP Redistricting Bill

(Lansing-WWJ) Over loud Democratic objections, Michigan Senate Republicans have pushed through a congressional redistricting map that would pit two Dems against each other in 2012.

The Republican-dominated Senate voted mostly along party lines to redraw the state's political map. Michigan is losing one seat in Congress due to population loss in the 2010 census.

Republicans would extend the district of longtime Detroit Democrat John Conyers all the way to Pontiac, to include the suburbs of Oak Park, Southfield, Farmington Hills and Orchard Lake.  The proposal would also force Democrats Sander Levin and Gary Peters into the same district.

A Democratic alternative would pit Peters, of Bloomfield Hills, against Livonia Republican Thaddeus McCotter in the 2012 election.

The GOP version is on its way to the desk of Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican.

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