LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, a 28-year incumbent in the Kentucky House of Representatives, announced Monday that she has withdrawn from her re-election campaign.

Marzian held a press event Monday, joined by other Democratic women representing parts of Jefferson County, to share the news and blast the recent GOP redistricting process that saw her pitted against fellow female incumbent Rep. Josie Raymond.

"I am not going to play their sadistic and misogynistic game of pitting Democratic women against each other," Marzian said.

Parts of House District 34, held by Marzian for nearly three decades, merged with parts of Raymond's district 31 during this year's redistricting process. Marzian and a chorus of other Democrats have blasted the Republicans' process as gerrymandering.

On Jan. 21, lawmakers overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of two redistricting maps. The Kentucky Democratic Party and others sued claiming Republicans split too many counties and that the maps are partisan.

Lawmakers redraw the legislative districts every 10 years following the U.S. Census.

The new maps meant four sets of incumbents, evenly split among Republican and Democratic lawmakers, would have to run against one another. Reps. Lisa Willner and McKenzie Cantrell also had their districts (35 and 38) merged. Cantrell has also withdrawn from the May primaries.

Editor's note:  Rep. Josie Raymond is the wife of Spectrum News 1 digital journalist Adam K. Raymond.