City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is demanding a Council district map gerrymandered to help embattled Assemblyman Vito Lopez be changed, The Post has learned.
Quinn sent a letter to the city Districting Commission today asking the 15-member body to redraw the Council’s district lines with respect to the blatant attempt to help Lopez, who plans to leave the Assembly after being stripped of his power because of sexual-harassment complaints.
Quinn’s move comes more than a week after The Post exposed the boundary shift that was intended to help Lopez in his purported bid for City Council next year. The commission moved his block of Stanhope Street in the 34th District in Brooklyn into the district where his power base lies, the neighboring 37th.
“The most significant concern I have relates to the new lines for District 34,” Quinn said. “I am requesting in the strongest possible terms that the Commission withdraw its submission to the Council to receive additional input from the public.”
Once the Commission redraws the lines, the Council will review the new maps – which presumably will plop Lopez back in the 37th Council district – and, if they approve them, send them to the federal Department of Justice for final review.