Gladwin-Midland United

The proposed redistricting that splits the city of Midland from Midland county is an obvious case of politically motivated gerrymandering. It will effectively take away the legislative voting rights of all of the voters in the city of Midland. Being lumped in with the much larger city of Flint means that the city of Flint will determine who legislatively represents the citizens of Midland. The legislative needs of Midland citizens are vastly different than the those of Flint residents, and having the voters of Flint ( 60 miles away from Midland ) dictate how citizens of Midland shall be represented is not at all fair to the citizens of Midland. The city of Midland is the county seat of Midland county, and splitting the county seat out from the rest of the county makes no sense. Separating the city of Midland from the county of Midland. results in a complicated district boundaries that serve no purpose other than to deny the the rightful representation of the citizens of the city of Midland MI.

I agree with this petition and disagree with this carve-out in our county.

The city of Midland should not be removed and aligned with Bay City and Saginaw. There is so many connections with Gladwin and Isabel.

Here we go again.

We share the same issues with Gladwin and west of Midland but not as much to the east nor south and certainly not with Genesee Co.

Please keep Midland from being combined with Flint, Saginaw and Bay City. But instead keep us with Gladwin when we share the same watershed, which has huge flood implications.

I support this effort

We wre supposed to stop gerrymandering. The actions of the commission are absurd!

Midland and Gladwin county belong together as a community of interest. We have nothing in common with Flint! This is pure gerrymandering on the part of the Democratic Party

Please consider keeping Midlands district unchanged so we don’t lose our voice in the bigger picture

This is crazy! Midland w/ Flint!!!!! Leave Midland w/Midland

This is a poor solution to both tradition and neighbor solidarity

Midland County belongs in totality with Gladwin and Clare

Midland County best aligns with Gladwin. Midland and Gladwin together shared the devastating flood of 2020.

Unfortunately overall, other than a few maps that were proposed, then eliminated, the commission has failed its goal of eliminating gerrymandering. Cities and adjoining counties have been split. They have failed the initial goals that were set, as well have broken constitutional rights of proper representation of ours as citizens.

Keep Midland, Midland County and Gladwin as is.

This is ridiculous, just stop already.

Gerrymandering is pow on target.The rats want to divide

Keep Gladwin and Midland together. We NEED to remain as a whole during our recovery from devastating floods to our communities.

Midland & Gladwin have always had joint interests. For years many people from Gladwin have provided the work force for Dow.