The last time political boundaries were redrawn, Southeast lost a senator and a House member which diminished its voice in the legislature. So there was some relief when the draft redistricting maps were published last week because the size of Southeast’s political delegation remained the same : four House members and two state Senators for next year’s election. U.S. Census data shows Southeast communities have either had very modest growth or lost population while other parts of the state grew relatively quickly. Rep. Andi Story is a Democrat now in her second term representing Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley. But the new maps released last week show her four-bedroom home on Auke Bay would be in a neighboring district that’s held by a party ally . But only by a few hundred yards — her neighbors across the street would be unaffected. “It is really suspect that they chose to break up my current street this way,” she said. It’s normal for political boundaries to be redrawn every 10 years to
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