No break-up for politics and redistricting yet

A plan to keep politics out of redistricting won't be moving forward anytime soon, The Post-Gazette reports.

The proposal, sponsored by State Rep. Steve Samuelson (D-Northampton), would prohibit lawmakers from serving on the panel that oversees redistricting. It would also bar the panel from considering party registration or voting records when redrawing district lines.

The proposal won't be seeing daylight before the State Government Committee, The Post-Gazette reports, after chairwoman Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia) tabled it.

"While I am doubtful that there is enough support in the General Assembly to pass even the most carefully drafted redistricting legislation, I am certain that the chances of passing flawed legislation ... are, in my opinion, nonexistent," Josephs wrote in a memo to colleagues.