Black delegates tempted by GOP's Senate map RICHMOND - At least two black Democrats in Virginia's House say they might support the GOP's surprise Senate redistricting plan. Onzlee Ware (D-Roanoke) and Rosalyn R. Dance (D-Petersburg) said Wednesday that they are on the fence about a plan that would create a new majority-black district in Southside but dilute black voting power elsewhere to make at least eight other districts more heavily Republican. The likely outcome would be to elect a sixth black senator, but diminish the overall power of Democrats in the now evenly split Senate. "Here's an opportunity where I can actually have a great impact on African Americans, yet at the same time, it doesn't help the entire Democratic party," Ware said. Should I always have to forgo the interests of black people for the good of the party?. . . I have a real dilemma on my hands right now. Like Ware, Dance took exception to how Republicans muscled the measure through the Senate last week, capitalizing on the absence of a Democratic senator who was in Washington for President Obama's inauguration. Taking up legislation calling for minor "technical adjustments" to House district boundaries, they amended it to revamp all 40 Senate districts. "I don't like the process," Dance said. But the irony of irony is, it's going to be hard for us [to vote against the plan] as African Americans because they create a minority seat. Sen. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) was angry to hear from a reporter that some fellow members of the black caucus would even consider voting for the plan, which comes to the House floor Thursday. "I'm hot as a pot of fish grease about this," she said.