COLUMBUS: Ohio Republicans failed in an effort Thursday to bring a second congressional map up for a vote as they sought to defuse Democratic opposition to the state’s recently adopted map.At one point, shouting erupted on the Ohio House floor over who fairly should represent the battleground state in Washington.Earlier in the day, House Speaker William Batchelder released a revised plan for the state’s U.S. House districts, saying it was fairer to Democrats and he hoped it would garner support from Democratic legislators.Batchelder, R-Medina, said his goal was to give Democrats a chance to support a congressional map with cleaner lines, more compact districts and better representation for blacks. His proposal also reinstated a single 2012 primary, something that would benefit both parties and save the state about $15 million.Both maps create 16 districts, 12 favoring Republicans and four favoring Democrats. The state is losing two congressional seats because of slow population growth.Democrats took Batchelder’s maneuver as an affront, saying they had presented him with a map Wednesday night and he rejected it. House Democratic Leader Armond Budish of Beachwood said the proposal was for six Republican districts, four Democratic districts, and six Republican-leaning districts that were split along party lines enough to be competitive.“By creating all safe districts, you take the vote away from the people,” Budish said.State Rep. Robert Hagan of Youngstown predicted that enough Democrats would stick together to oppose a vote on the revised map, failing to give Republicans the 66 votes needed to waive House rules and bring their plan up for an immediate vote. The vote on suspending the rules was 58-34.Hagan called the special session “a useless exercise.”When Budish rose during floor debate to criticize the map, calling it an egregious case of gerrymandering, Republican Rep. Lynn Wachtmann shouted from his chair, “These lies shouldn’t be allowed on the floor, Mr. Speaker!”About a dozen Republican lawmakers then rose from their chairs and walked off the floor.“They’re trying to pass a bill. They’re embarrassed by the fact that they’re having two primaries and putting a tremendous amount of weight on the counties at the same time they’re cutting local government,” Hagan said.Numerous revisions Among key changes, the new map unifies seven counties that were previously split, reduces splits in two counties from three to two and splits one county that was previously whole. It also increases the black voting-age populations of urban districts in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo.Batchelder said he didn’t have time to study the Democrats’ revised map Wednesday night and couldn’t call off Thursday’s vote. He said he had called one representative back from Virginia and kept another from going duck hunting.Several representatives were in the building but failed to come to the floor, he said.Later Thursday, Hagan issued a statement asking the GOP to donate $7,992.81 to the Second Harvest Food Banks in Youngstown, which was just declared the most impoverished city in America. That was the cost of the mileage for the wasted session, he said.Batchelder said he’ll send the bill on the congressional maps to the powerful House Rules Committee, with hearings expected to start Monday. A former judge, he said he still holds out hope for a compromise.Democrats launched a petition drive Tuesday aimed at a 2012 repeal of the bill passed in September that established the initial map. They have claimed it’s gerrymandered to favor the GOP.Democrat undaunted Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said he’s determined to see Ohio voters get a chance to repeal the existing map and hopefully send a message they want districts to be more evenly split.“I fully expect Republicans to try to undermine my referendum effort with passing more new maps and other legislative gimmicks,” he said. “This vote today was supposed to be a Tonya Harding-type blow to bring me to my knees.”Batchelder said Republicans have tried repeatedly to pass an acceptable map but Democrats won’t tell his party what they want. Though both parties were given equal sums to pay for redistricting analysis, Democrats never made a proposal for the GOP to work from, he said.Under no statistical scenario is Ohio a 50-50 state politically, he said.Budish said the party decided early it would be better to work behind the scenes than to risk alienating Republicans with a public map.Batchelder attached the map unveiled Thursday to language reinstating a single 2012 primary in the state. Lawmakers last month split the primary, keeping local primaries in March and moving presidential and U.S. House races to June to allow more time to work out a compromise with Democrats.Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus said senators were getting negative reaction in their districts over the two primaries. He had scheduled a tentative floor session in his chamber for today, to take up the revised map if it passed.Associated Press writer Ann Sanner contributed to this report.