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DesideriScuri -> RE: Well, here we go again (8/19/2013 5:39:21 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
In an effort to improve fair representation in the state of Texas, the Republican controlled state house has once more brought a whole new meaning to the term "Gerrymandering."
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Redistricting Plan Set, But Legal Debate Isn't Over
The Texas Legislature, trading turns with the federal courts, used this year’s first special session to approve new redistricting maps that will be in place for next year’s elections unless the courts object. Left alone, those maps will become state law in September.
Before the first round of this decade’s redistricting in 2011, 97 of the 150 House districts voted, on average, for Republicans in statewide elections. In the maps approved by the Legislature this summer, that rose to 100 districts. The Democrats, conversely, fell to 50 from 53 before redistricting.
Redistricting Plan Set, But Legal Debate Isn't Over
Back in 2001, the state did a redistricting move that turned my predominantly democrat district into a Republican District that included the city of Lubbock, way the fuck up in the panhandle. This move was to get rid of Charles Stenholm, a democrat congressman for over twenty years who made it a habit of helping farmers, ranchers, and the lower middle class.
The new district has a thirty mile stretch that is about 100 yards wide heading up to Lubbock.
And people talk about Democrats rigging the vote.
I have no doubts that Democrats do the same thing when they can, jlf. When they do it, it's just as wrong as when the R's do it. WTF took them so long? The census was in 2010....
Ohio R's did the same thing in 2011. In 2012, there was a new plan to make redistricting fairer that passed the Ohio Senate 32-1 (The Ohio Senate party breakdown is 23R - 9D). That should help prevent abuses in the future.
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