PAC: Redistricting map protects Maryland's 'white Democratic males'

Republicans and a voters-rights advocacy group are rallying against an initial proposal to redraw the state’s legislative districts.

The plan, released Friday by the Governor’s Redistricting Advisory, calls for increasing from 10 to 12 the number of majority-black Senate districts and creating a majority-Hispanic district in Prince George’s County. But a spokesman for the Fannie Lou Hamer Political Action Committee said the plan does not do enough to provide adequate representation to blacks and other minorities.

Radamese Cabrera, a consultant who works for the PAC, called the plan “pure racism,” arguing the map should have as many as 14 majority-black districts to more accurately represent black Marylanders.