NASHVILLE – State House Democrats are demanding majority Republicans change a legislative redistricting plan or face a legal challenge.
“We’re headed to court, no doubt about it – unless something happens and the Republicans want to sit down and talk,” Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner, of Nashville, told reporters Thursday.
He charged Republicans are “trying to go to a one-party state.”
The GOP plan, released Wednesday, squeezes eight Democratic incumbents into four seats, forcing them to run against each other.
That includes two black Democrats from Hamilton County, Tommie Brown and JoAnne Favors, and two from Memphis.