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...redistricting process that eliminated Cambridge’s 28th district seat from the statehouse delegation now has state representatives scrambling to assign blame for the loss of the traditionally minority post...
...Barrios ’90 holds the soon-to-be-lost seat, which has fielded a minority winner for the past 25 years. City councillors are now preparing to file a lawsuit in hopes of regaining the district. And many are turning to Barrios to explain why the 28th was dismantled...
...House plan, which passed late Monday night, cuts Cambridge into six pieces—previously it had been divided in three large chunks—and completely eliminates one of the city’s two current “full-time” representative seats, the traditionally minority 28th district seat currently held by Jarrett T. Barrios...
...11th hour amendment to the original redistricting cut the 28th district to prevent the merging of the districts of two incumbents from Newton...
...angry at Representative Barrios,” said former state representative Sandra Graham, who held the 28th district seat from 1976-1988. “It probably would not have been on the chopping block if he had not let people know that he was running for State Senate...