This puts us with cities and communities with which I have no connection whatsoever. Also NOT Fair.

This map makes it far less likely for My city to be represented by a Democratic state senator

NO thank you!! This is a bad map. LOW partisan fairness score. A definite step backwards.

Commissioners, remember COI is much more important than "Partisan Fairness" that some are saying. This map hurt my Chaldean people. Cardinal is a good and fair map. Dove, Lange, and Curry is also good and fair map. Hear our voices please! Heron, Szetela and Starling hurts Chaldean people.

This a very bad map for Chaldeans. This divides our community and our Churches. Our people want to have a voice. The best map for us is Cardinal with district 10. Please listen to us Chaldeans rather than some bad actors who know nothing about our community. A good read regarding what we really want can be found in this comment on MICRC portal: https://www.michigan-mapping.org/submission/f10285

Question: How do you justify doing this to our Chaldean community? Answer: You can't!! Our community should be valued. We matter more than this map seems to believe. I ask the remaining commissioners not targeting my community to stand firm against any map that hurts our community!

Hi commissioners! Please read the letter, link at the end of this comment, by Mr. Martin Manna before your deliberations next week. Please do not marginalize Chaldeans... Reject Heron/Szetela/Starling and adopt Cardinal. https://www.michigan-mapping.org/submission/f10285

Reject Szetela, Heron and Starling the same way these maps rejects my Chaldean people. Cardinal District 10 respects Chaldeans.

This map does not do COI as well as others.

Chaldeans are mixed up with other communities of interests here. Please reject this map.

Chaldeans are not represented in this map. Cardinal map best represent our minority community. Please commissioners, do not disenfranchise us. Choose Cardinal. We like district 10 in Cardinal. District 9 in Crane, Dove, Curry, Kellom, Lange, Orton or Wagner are also good for Chaldean community but Cardinal is the number 1 choice for Chaldeans.

This is a bad map. It provides fewer opportunities for people of color to have a voice. It divides the Chaldean community. It has an unacceptably low partisan fairness score. This map should absolutely not be chosen.

This map offers fewer Voting Rights Act districts for communities of color. It's a terrible map in terms of partisan fairness scoring. Should be rejected.

This map DOES NOT represent my Chaldean community. Very bad map for us! Please listen to us Chaldeans and not people who claim they know what's good for Chaldeans and choosing maps that actually hurt us.

This map splits the Chaldean community. Please reject it. Chaldeans wants to have a voice too. It is unfair that all other community of interests are considered but not the Chaldean community of interest in this map.

Good morning commisioners! I have concern about 3 maps which disefranchises my Chaldean community. Those 3 maps that splits the Chaldean community are Heron, Szetela and Starling. Please please do not use those 3 maps. There are 9 other maps that are respects the Chaldean community. Those maps are Cardinal and Finch with District 10 or Crane, Dove, Curry, Kellom, Lange, Orton or Wagner with District 9. Chaldeans are a protected minory and we are requesting just one district in MI that respect our community of interests. On Noverber 4, 2021, you commisioners were discussing Dr. Hanley's analysis that was done on the Chaldean community in Sterling heights during your meeting. Please take a look at her analysis of Sterling Heights again and include the Chaldeans in Troy and Rchester Hills. East of Sterling heights was not included with the Linden map. Which disenfrenchises the Chaldean community. This is not the first time you have heard this commissioners. I have myself stated this on the Chery V2 map comment portal. which had the same district 10 as Linden, my exact comment was in 2021: Please include East Sterling Heights with rest of Sterling Heights and Troy. Do not disenfranchise the Chaldean communities living in East of Sterling Heights. You can see that specific comment on Cherry v2 plan. But East Sterling Heights wasnt included. It was lumped with Detroit and subsequently, the Linden map ws thrown out. Heron also lumps East Sterling Heights with sections of Detroit. Heron should not be considered based on this fact alone. Also for the fact, unlike Linden which consideres the Chaldean community, Heron totally destroys the Chaldean community of interest and therefore does not meet VRA. Starling and Sztela also splits the Chaldean community. Please go back and look at DR. Hanley's analysis. You have 9 other maps that respects the Chaldean community. Chooss one of them. I prefer the Cardinal and Finch configuration since all of Sterling Heights is included with Troy. Chaldeans have been in MI for over 5 decades. We own many businesses. We contribute to MI economy. We are our own community of interest and should not be lumped with other COIs. Please commisioners, eliminate Heron, Szetela and Starling VIOLATES Chaldean rights, suppresses our votes, marginalize us, disenfranchises our people, and splits and dismisses our voices! Please do not margilize the already ignored Chaldean community. -We are our own community and all we are asking is for one district in MI. Chaldean voices matter! Thank you commisioners for all your hard work! And have wonderful rest of your day!

This map is unfair and does not adequately represent the Chaldean Community. It has a low partisan fairness score.

I do not like this map. It has a low partisan fairness score as well as less opportunity for representation of communities of color. It is worse than the status quo. It also puts Sterling Heights together with rural Macomb County- two communities that are not at all connected. It also dilutes the voice of the Caldean community

Please do not choose this. It has low partisan fairness. There are few opportunities for non white representation.

This has a very bad partisan fairness score, and it's much worse than Linden, the status quo. There are very few opportunities for non-white representation, including Chaldeans.

This map has a low partisan fairness score. It also dilutes the the Chaldean community in East Sterling Heights. Please don't vote for it.

This map is discriminates against the Chaldean community. Do not choose please.

This map is too broad and doesn't meet the needs of our communities. Please do not use this map.

This map violates Chaldean rights and divides our voices. The only acceptable configurations for Chaldeans are Cardinal and Finch with District 10 or Crane, Dove, Curry, Kellom, Lange, Orton or Wagner with District 9. The 3 maps of Heron, Szetela and Starling VIOLATES Chaldean rights, suppresses our votes, marginalize us, disenfranchises our people, and splits and dismisses our voices! Please do not use this map!

This is a highly partisan map and is unfair. It should be selected.

This map lumps together Sterling Heights and rural Macomb County. It is a poorly constructed and generally unfair. Do not use.

This map seems very unfair to my community. It will eliminate my community from being fairly represented.

This map breaks up the Chaldean community. It is not a fair map. Please reconsider. Everyone should have a voice.

Chaldeans have been in MI for over 5 decades. We own many businesses. We contribute to MI economy. But we are ignored in this map. The only acceptable configurations for Chaldeans are Cardinal and Finch with District 10 or Crane, Dove, Curry, Kellom, Lange, Orton or Wagner with District 9. The 3 maps of Heron, Szetela and Starling VIOLATES Chaldean rights, suppresses our votes, marginalize us, disenfranchises our people, and dismisses our voices!

This is a very bad map for Chaldeans. Our people want to have a voice. It is not ok to ignore us. This map infringes on our rights.

This map violates Chaldeans rights by dividing us! The only acceptable configurations for Chaldeans are Cardinal and Finch with District 10 or Crane, Dove, Curry, Kellom, Lange, Orton or Wagner with District 9. The 3 maps of Heron, Szetela and Starling VIOLATES Chaldean rights, suppresses our votes, marginalize us, disenfranchises our people, and dismisses our voices!

Commissioner Szetela, All we as Chaldeans are asking for is to be represented with a fair senate map. This will either be with the Cardinal or the Crane configurations. You are effectively disenfranchising and marginalizing when you dismiss our voices! This map disenfranchises the Chaldean Community of Interest

False Claim number 4 by commissioner Szetela: It's suspicious that more Chaldeans are putting more comments in as before. As a commissioner, you SHOULD NEVER dismiss a community like you did here! Even if true, SO WHAT if more Chaldean are involved in this process in 2024 than 2021? Isnt this the hope of this commission that more people get involved? Its Voters not Politians correct? Your comment was more inline with a politician making unprovable claims, stating false claims and dismissing a Community of interest than an independent commissioner whose job is to listen to what the communities of interest want. Chaldean is a community of interest and this map violates our rights!

False Claim number 3 by commissioner Szetela: She is a confirmed Catholic so she is familiar with the Chaldean Catholic Church. So? First not all Catholics are the same. Second, we are Eastern rite Catholics and are a big community in MI especially in Sterling Heights, Troy and Rochester Hills. Please do not suppress our votes! This map is the definition of voter suppression!

False Claim number 2 by commissioner Szetela: There are 6 Chaldean Churches in MI. This is just false! Commissioner Szetela there are 10 and not 6 church in the Southeast of Michigan. there are 4 churches on the West side and 5 on the East side and 1 in Grand blanc. I have always promoted a district in the East side that includes the areas of Sterling Heights, Troy and Rochester Hills. Commissioner Szetela cannot even get simple facts about the Chaldean community yet she has the power to marginalize us and it looks like she is using it by making false claims here... Please do not cancel our voices!

False claim number 1 by the caller on 6/11/2024 (I will not mention his name here): Prior to 2024 there were only 4 comments that talk about the Chaldeans in the Sterling Heights area in the State Senate context. commissioner Szetela actually agreed with this caller. This is an absolute false claim commissioner! Here are the facts: A simple search shows the desires of the Chaldean community to include Sterling Heights in the configuration where Chaldeans are at least 7 times in the Lange, Kellom, Szetela, Cherry V2, 10-08-21 V1 SD senate maps. This is only for the map portal I am not including the Public Comment Portal. You are supposed to read both portals! Then what is the point of this portal. Where was the number 4 come from? And I didnt do an extensive search to find more comments regarding the Chaldean community. At best, both that caller and Commissioner Szetela are just wrong and did not do a proper search. At worse they are both lying and trying to promote certain maps and dismiss Chaldean voices. I will give grace to Commissioner Szetela and say she is just wrong in her analysis. Please dont disenfranchise the Chaldean community! But your own senate map, Szetela Plan 404 disenfranchises and divides the Chaldean community...

There was a caller on 6/11/2024 who basically promoted the disenfranchisement of the Chaldean community. What's worse is that commissioner Szetela agreed with that caller and his false claims making false claims of her own! I will mention each of the claims in my proceeding comments.

Please delete this map due to it's low partisan score.

Fails at communities of interest and partisan fairness

Please reject. This map again cuts out Wolverine Lake and southern Commerce and lumps them in with VERY rural areas like White Lake, Highland etc. We have more in common with Walled Lake and Novi.

Not good. Please delete.

This map has a low partisan fairness score and puts together very different populations in Sterling Heights and Rural Macomb County who do not share the same interests.

I dislike this map as it groups suburban and rural communities that do not share the same interests.

I do not like this map because I do not think it is fair.

This map has a very low partisan fairness score. It lumps suburban Sterling Heights and part of Macomb without regard to shared communities of interest.

This gerrymanders the neighborhoods within this district, it splits the Chaldean voting block and lumps it together with rural Macomb county. It does not fairly represent the people who live within this area.

This gerrymanders the neighborhoods within this district, it splits the Chaldean voting block and lumps it together with rural Macomb county. It does not fairly represent the people who live within this area.

This dilutes the Chaldean voice. This has a terrible partisan fairness score.

Lumps suburban Sterling Heights and rural Macomb in a way that makes no sense.

One of the worst maps. It has no partisan balance.

I am not in favor of this map. It carves up constituencies in what appears to be a random manner.

This map is truly a step backwards in every way. Should not receive serious consideration.

This appears to be a step backwards from the Linden map.

This map is not at all fair. Should not be considered.

This lacks partisan fairness

this map is not fair to all parties, and does not address the needs of black communities

weird map, very partisan.

This map does not maintain partisan fairness. Please do not select this map.

Please do not adopt this map. It does not have partisan fairness and it's not good for my community.

Why adopt a map which increases statewide partisan UNfairness? We, the people, passed Proposal 2 with the intent of making the redistricting process more fair in a partisan sense, across the entire state. This map does NOT accomplish that. Please reject this map. Citizens deserve better.

Starling adds to the partisan unfairness of Linden and has no redeeming values. Treatment of COI isn't particularly good. It really has nothing going for it. Heron is better in every way except municipal splits, which are a lower priority than fairness under the Constitution.

This map clearly disregards the vote of the people and places them in the jurisdiction of a senator whom they did not elect, nor are they aware of the intricacies around Romulus. We are home to the largest international airport in the state, two major expressways as well as two major railways. Moving Romulus to district #5 will add us to a district with communities having much higher populations. Those communities have very little or no similarity as our community. I am concerned that our issues will not be heard. Commissions have already weakened the voice of our residents in the house, please do not make the same mistake at the senate level.

this one does not group similar groups together either. I am not a fan of the quirky designs

Interestingly, the commissioners in this case made a curious decision to split up the more northern Oakland jurisdictions in a peculiar manner. While I do in fact appreciate minor adjustments made in this map variation, I find the overall Oakland transformation less than ideal when it comes to the many communities of interest that make up our greater metro area. Thankfully, there are other, commission-developed maps that our commissioners may investigate further.

This map seems to hurt the chaldean community of interest.

The City of Romulus stands out because it has a population of around 25,000 yet serves over 100,000 people daily due to DTW. This leads to unique challenges regarding our representation. Romulus' representation became diluted when our House Districts increased to three, and with two additional Senators, the situation will likely worsen. It's uncommon for a city to have so many representatives. Such a change could be detrimental to a city that supports DTW. The plea is to keep Romulus united. While this proposal does that it adds us too other Cities that are do not have similar make up as it pertains to overall population, business and concerns.