INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Rep. Mitch Gore is calling the upcoming special session on redistricting “political theater” and says some Republican lawmakers are being given cover to cast what he calls “safe no votes” on an unpopular plan.

Indiana State Rep. Mitch Gore, a Democrat, told WIBC on Wednesday that House leadership is allowing some Republicans to vote against the redistricting bill because their districts oppose it. He criticized the plan, announced by House Speaker Todd Huston, to reconvene on December 1 to continue debating new congressional maps.

“This is my argument, because people need to realize this is all political theater,” Gore said. “These members’ no votes are planned. They are allowed off leash by the speaker because this issue is deeply unpopular across the state,

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