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chairman, is floating a redistricting plan that is overtly partisan and might give Republicans the advantage in a district where Scott lived and in some other radically redrawn districts.
That plan appears to be a nonstarter. Instead, since the state must be completely redistricted again following the 2000 census, Republicans in the legislature may be content to make adjustments that protect incumbent GOP Rep. Herbert H. Bateman in the 1st District and Thomas Bliley in the 7th District.
Many scenarios are being mentioned, but the one put forth most often would place Scott in an urban district located entirely in Hampton Roads and restore Bliley to a district taking in practically all of the Richmond metropolitan area.
If that were done, the rest would fall riaturally into place so long as the court is willing to accept the use of 1990 census figures in the reapportionment.
Bateman, for instance, would probably pick up the small midPeninsula counties that were formerly
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