COMMENTARY | Manatee commissioners get political as they dive deep into redistricting

Drawing new lines for commission districts about much more than mapmaking

Not withstanding their protestations of high-mindedness and wishful thinking — “I wish we could keep the political out of this,” said Commissioner Carol Whitmore — nothing Whitmore and her colleagues do while in office will be as overtly political as their redrawing of the county’s five commission single-member districts.

After all, for the five commissi…