Pinned Tweet
Bloomington is a "college town." The large university here is not its own municipality (hello, Clemson) and completely inside city limits, so half our 80,000 population is college students. But only one's ever served on our city council. A 🧵 about local gov’t (w/maps). 1/29
Stephen G Volan retweeted
There is no Constitutional prohibition against deleting surveillance footage, so I’m not sure what Jack Smith thinks he’s doing here.
-Jonathan Turley
Hey @aaron_renn @Ashton_Hackman @idsnews, I wrote a thing about redistricting the city council map of a college town, and the students who never get real representation. It's probably going to cost me my political career; maybe it's interesting.
teapaw.org/sgv/status/15780467506…
Here's a map of 3 full / 5 partial Bloomington city precincts and their 2020 populations. Everything in purple or pink is either dorms, Greek-letter houses, or "family student housing". There’s not a house or privately-owned dwelling to be found in this area about 1.5 mi^2. 15/29
...it’s unlikely that my home precinct will get put back in. My political future is a matter for another time (and tweetstorm). I've tried to do right by my constituents; this feels like the proper action I should take for them. 28/29
The struggle for racial equality has been far more pernicious than the struggle for age equality. The 26th Amendment hasn’t been abrogated (to my knowledge) since it was passed. But the case the Supreme Court has taken up has some resonance here, locally. 8/29
There are enough students here to justify three of the six district seats on Council. The young are new to participating in democracy, and naive and ignorant. They tend to vote less than the elderly, even less at the local level, and even less when the election is off-year. 13/29