Commentary | City Council redistricting plan should lean on wisdom of Tom Menino

When the Boston City Council last took up redistricting in 2012, Mayor Tom Menino vetoed two maps for “packing” voters of color into District 4 and weakening their voting power. According to the Dorchester Reporter, Menino wrote at the time that “My concern about the last plan was that it concentrated our many citizens of color into too few districts, and in doing so may limit their equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice” and that “this overconcentration was especially true in District 4.” The final map passed by the council that year was largely aligned with the previous decade’s map.

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