How NC Republican Legislators Voted on Redistricting, Nov. 24-25, 2003

All the Senate Republicans voted against the final House &
Senate redistricting plan.

The 61 House Republicans voted 38-to-20 against it, with 3 not
voting.  The 59 Democrats voted 52-to-6 for it, with 1 not voting.
So it passed 72-to-44.

Here's the official tally for the NC House, from the NC General Assembly web site:

  http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/voteHistory/RollCallVoteTranscript.pl?sSession=03E1&sChamber=H&RCS=8

That page doesn't show party affiliation, but you can check it here:

  http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=House

Of the 61 House Republicans, these 20 voted "Yes" for the
final Democrat/Morgan redistricting plan, including the
Senate plan which every Republican in the NC Senate had
already voted against:

  Rex Baker (King)
  Bobby Barbee (Locust)
  Jeff Barnhart (Concord)
  Harold Brubaker (Asheboro)
  Debbie Clary (Cherryville)
  Bill Daughtridge (Rocky Mount)
  Mike Decker (Walkertown)
  Rick Eddins (Raleigh)
  Mitch Gillespie (Marion)
  Carolyn Justus (Henderson)
  Joe Kiser (Vale)
  Stephen LaRoque (Kinston)
  Daniel McComas (Wilmington)
  Richard Morgan (Eagle Springs)
  Louis Pate (Mt. Olive)
  John Sauls (Sanford)
  Tracy Walker (Wilkesboro)
  Roger West (Marble)
  Keith Williams (Hubert)
  Gene Wilson (Boone)


These 3 Republican Representatives did not vote:

  Rayfield (not voting)
  Miner (absent)
  Stiller* (absent)

One of the three, David Miner, would have voted "Yes"
if he had been there; he was attending a national meeting of
state legislative leaders in Miami, which had been arranged
months earlier.  (confirmation here)

The remaining 38 Republicans voted "No," against the Democrat/
Morgan redistricting plan:

  Allred*
  Blackwood*
  Blust
  Bowie*
  Capps
  Creech
  Culp
  Daughtry
  Dockham
  Ellis
  Frye
  Gorman
  Grady*
  Gulley
  Hilton*
  Holmes
  Howard*
  Johnson, Linda
  Justice
  Lewis*
  McCombs
  McGee*
  McHenry
  McMahan
  Mitchell
  Moore*
  Munford
  Preston
  Ray*
  Rhodes
  Setzer*
  Sexton
  Sherrill
  Stam
  Starnes
  Walend
  Wilson, Connie
  Wood*


* Members indicated with an asterisk voted "Aye" on 11/24/2003 for the
House plan alone, but did not vote for the final bill the next day.



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