The Brief: Top Texas News for Feb. 7, 2012
The Big Conversation:
A day of stops and starts in the state's redistricting fight ended on a familiar note: uncertainty over the state's primary date.
A federal panel in San Antonio had given the two parties at odds over the state's redistricting maps until Monday to agree on a set of compromise maps that could potentially preserve the state's April 3 primaries.
Early Monday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott unveiled a compromise between the state, which is arguing for the state's Republican-drawn maps, and a coalition of advocacy groups, which say the maps discriminate ...
Comments (5)
Jose B. Gonzalez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Other than the GOP, who else supported this?
Emily Miller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well, then there's no compromise.
namoyer
Abbott's compromise?? WTF! TX compromise is where you walk outta the room without getting shot in the back! Frankly, I don't care now if the damned primaries don't happen until November. Bah Humbug! (Happy 200th Dickenson).
Sunny Conditt Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Looks like to me they only asked the Chinese, Indians, and maybe some South African folks.....
Samdavis
Abbott is a moral cripple. Calling this a compromise is yet another example of his willingness to subvert the laws of the country to serve the GOP's ends. The man has no conscience and is certainly unfit to serve as AG even in Texas.
He did much the same when he pushed for lawsuit reform AFTER he collected a large sum for the accident that put him in the wheelchair (Notice how that is always shown in his campaign commercials?).