Michigan redistricting plan targets suburban Detroit Dems

A draft redistricting plan in Michigan would place two incumbent Democratic congressmen in the same district, the Detroit News reports.

The Republican plan would, as many observers have expected, place longtime Rep. Sandy Levin and Rep. Gary Peters, now in his second term, in the same suburban Detroit district.

Michigan is set to lose one House seat in the next Congress, giving it 14 seats. Republicans hold all the power in the redistricting process, controlling the governorship and both houses of the state legislature.

Some have suggested that Peters would run for another office rather than challenge more senior Democrats like Levin, the ranking member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

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this time around.

It's a crying shame.