Sixth District Congressional Rep. Kathy Manning, on Thursday, Dec. 7, announced that she would not be running for re-election.
Manning has served as the Sixth District Congresswoman since 2020.
The press release states that Manning will not run “under the egregiously gerrymandered congressional districts, which the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly passed into law …”
What goes around comes around. In 202,0 it was Republican Sixth District Rep. Mark Walker who announced he would not be running for re-election because the Sixth District had been redrawn from one that favored Republicans to one that a Republican couldn’t win.
In 2020, Manning ran in the newly drawn Sixth District and easily won election to Congress. Manning won in 2022 in a redrawn Sixth District that still gave the Democratic candidate a huge advantage.
Now the congressional districts have been redrawn again and the Republicans in the state legislature switched the Sixth from a Democratic district to a Republican district.
However, there is a legal challenge to the congressional districts drawn by the Republicans for the 2024 election and, should that challenge be successful, Manning has left the door open for her to get back in the race.
To come full circle, former Sixth District Rep. Mark Walker has filed to run in the newly drawn Sixth District and at this point is considered by political pundits to be the front runner in the Republican primary. As Manning correctly noted in her press release, a Democratic candidate doesn’t have much chance in the Sixth District general election. What that means is the real election, the vote that will determine who will represent the Sixth District in Congress will be in the Republican primary. Just as in 2020 and 2022, the vote that mattered in the Sixth District election was in the Democratic primary.
In the press release Manning states, “Republicans have blatantly rigged the map against Democrats by splitting the City of Greensboro into three pieces and combining each piece with far-flung counties, with the majority of Greensboro being drawn into a district that goes all the way to the border with Tennessee. The maps separate the heart of Greensboro from High Point and Winston-Salem, destroying a Triad District, a community of interest that deserves representation. Remarkably, and not coincidentally, the newly drawn Sixth District gives a sixteen-point advantage to a Republican candidate over a Democratic candidate.”
In 2020, when Manning first won the Sixth District Congressional seat, the Democratic candidate had a 10 point advantage over a Republican candidate.
Coward, but Manning has only wanted things bought and paid for her. Walker was a coward in 2020 too. We need some one who actually lives here, is non-partisan, and is middle class to represent us.
I am looking forward to Virginia Foxx being our representative, or as you say, another non-partisan middle-class or more conservative person who believes in freedom and personal rights to represent us. Both Manning and Walker are cowards and I’m happy to be rid of them. Both parties gerrymander and both lose depending on who draws the lines. It’s tiring.
(PS: the ads between the lines of copy and replies are extremely annoying and will cause me to stop reading The Rhino. It’s bad enough to have the distracting moving bits and dropdown crap, but now having paragraphs and replies interrupted is mind-numbing and one of the major reasons kids have no ability to read and comprehend anymore.)
100% correct on everything you said Deborah especially the ads, they are extremely annoying. I’m guessing Roy needs the extra money to buy a new car or jet his worth may be getting below a billion
In all fairness, every business has to stand on its own two legs or it will be closed. This is the Productive Sector, not the Parasitic Sector.
I doubt Roy makes any money from supporting this publication, probably only asking that it pays its own way. I don’t think that’s too much to ask, so that we can all enjoy The Rhino.
Karma (Hinduism Buddhism, the principle of retributive justice determining a person’s state of life and the state of his/her reincarnations as the effect of past deeds)
She won’t be missed.
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She is “Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!” that gerrymandering has taken place in North Carolina!
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
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I know most of us lean right here, writers and readers, but thanks Rhino Times for reporting this in a way that shows how political the redistricting process is, and both parties are willing to engage accordingly when they have power.
Representative Manning has been nothing but a hard core liberal Democrat. Her press release about the new Speaker slammed him right out of the gate for his conservative values. Glad to see her go. I hope she finds another suitable opportunity, just not one that involves representing people.
Bahloney, Kathy. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
You can always run for Gov’s job, or is that what you had in mind?
Dems got to gerrymander the district lines for 100+ years and it was never an issue to them. If Republicans complained they were told “well then win elections and you can draw the lines.” Republicans eventually did just that, winning in those Democrat-gerrymandered districts, now it’s a massive problem that the Dems cry about. What goes around comes around. Karma is a bitch.
All I want to say is- Hallelujah!!
LMAO!!! I believe that’s how she got her 1st term. Guess the medicine is bitter when you have to taste it. Not much accomplished but thanks for bring all the illegals here.
Manning made a great decision not to run again because she would not have been reelected. Interestingly what she stated about “egregiously gerrymandered congressional districts.” That is how she got elected in 2020. The fact is, Manning is a follower, not a leader. She voted with Biden consistently. Never did she speak out against forgiving student loans, or against Biden spending the U.S. into bankruptcy, voting against money going to Ukraine, and on and on. Her constituents in Greensboro may have agreed with her voting record, but the newly drawn district voters will not, and she knows it. Greensboro voters are a rare breed. They really are no different than the voters in NY city, just on a much smaller scale.
Why is it that when democrats gettymander the districts to benefit democrats, it’s fair and equitable, but when Republicans chenge the districts, it’s an egregious gerrymandering. It’s a shame she wants to quit because things didn’t go the way she wanted, but to echo Barack Hussein Obama, “elections have consequences…”
Best news I’ve heard all week, and her reason for not running is hilarious! May she blest with many years of life to be able to see the damage she and her fellow tyrannical control freaks have inflicted on our country.
Manning should hang her head in shame because of the way she slammed the system and republicans. She displayed her true colors and someone with this kind of attitude has no business holding any kind of public office.
See ya, baby killer.
So glad the witch of NC won’t be back!! She’s done absolutely nothing positive for the citizens of NC. She used her position for free meds and healthcare for ber family. She used it to get things she wanted personally. Manning in no way represented the people of NC. It was never about us at all for her. Just like with Skip Alston, it’s all about what they get from it that benefits them and tpo hell with us.
She won’t be missed. I’m a person who is not afraid to write my representatives in government, and Kathy Manning has been one of the most unresponsive I dealt with. The only person who was worse was Elizabeth Dole, although Gov Cooper would also be in the running. The fact is, almost all politicians begin serving new masters as soon they settle into their government offices. They forget about us until they need our taxes or our votes.
Well…..Bye……. (In my best Powers Boothe voice)
gerrymandered in – gerrymandered out. the ‘owners’ of harvard etc. recently expressed their displeasure of the president’s comments by withholding $$. follow the $$ to true ‘ownership’. ‘democracy’ is just a word.
No whining.
my wine has an ‘h’ in it.