<p>On the same afternoon that this vote occurred, the State Senate took advantage of the fact that a fellow Senator, a 79 year old Democratic veteran of the Civil Rights struggle, was away at the inauguration on MLK Day. They quickly rammed through a surprise extremely gerrymandered re-re-districting map for the Senate that makes it very hard for some key Dems to win re-election. The Charlottesville State Senator now will also represent the North Carolina border.</p>