Conspiracies die hard
Incredibly, nearly two months after commissioners called the Hamilton County Commission’s redistricting process the most open and transparent in history, two commissioners are still grousing about the process.
The process, for the first time, all was done in front of the public, usually following the commission’s weekly Wednesday sessions. The steps were explained at the outset by commission Chairwoman Sabrena Smedley, the meetings were streamed (and recorded for later viewing), and it was suggested that every commissioner meet with constituents in their districts.
As the process reached its conclusion, Smedley even allowed one commissioner who was ill to be on the phone throughout deliberations so she could tweak the map almost exactly as she desired.
That commissioner, Katherlyn Geter of District 5, is the one whose recent words to local alumni of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., according to WTVC, were unfathomable.