The Brief: Top Texas News for Nov. 29, 2011
The Big Conversation:
Election season in Texas may have officially begun Monday, but with maps in flux, the state appears ready to tap the brakes.
As the filing period to run in Texas' March 6 primaries opened Monday, Attorney General Greg Abbott asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt elections under newly redrawn redistricting maps that contain fewer Republican districts.
A federal panel in San Antonio has redrawn the original Republican-backed maps, passed earlier this year by the Texas Legislature, while a separate federal panel, in Washington, decides whether the originals meet federal voting-rights standards. Abbott told the Tribune ...
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David Spratt
Every time we think it is over , and hope that it is, something like this comes along and reminds us all racism is alive and thriving. People who did not even live under slavery or Jim Crow seem determined to pay back every wrong ever done twice over. Basically led by just a few, because it only takes one to file the lawsuit on " behalf" of everyone else. Every American no matter who you are has access to the very same schools , roads, swimming pools, restaurants, jobs , regardless of what color you are or where your family tree traces it's roots to. Yet for some reason 46 years after the civil rights acts were passed we are constantly told not much has changed. Now it is the Hispanics who are different somehow from everybody else in some indeterminate way. The occupiers bring this to the forefront claiming they want equality for all, when really what they are claiming is that some should enjoy greater equality than others just because they are entitled. If you cannot change the way things are going at the ballot box then run to the courts and they will do it for you. The attacks on Christianity are indicative of this movement. It only takes one person who does not even live in a town to drive by and see a cross or nativity scene on public property and the next thing you know they have alerted atheists from thousands of miles away.
I am white , not by choice that's just the way it happened. I have known people of all races and colors many of them successful, some not so much. But as an American I am sick and tired of the pitting of black against white, white against brown, rich against poor , educated against the uneducated, people with homes against the homeless. This will be our undoing and we will have done it to ourselves spurred on by special interest groups, media, and politicians only interested in their own personal gain and agendas. Government nor the courts can mandate or legislate equality or social harmony. It must come from the people themselves. Government has gone about as far in this regard , and some would say much farther, than ever envisioned by our Founding Fathers. At some point it all comes down to personal responsibility of the individual and society as a whole. Preferential treatment beyond that point mandated by law becomes counterproductive to the process.
gypsy314 ne
I for one I'm glad Greg Abbott is doing his job for the citizens of Texas I do not think liberals should not cheat voters out of the maps the there elected rep. have draw up. Texas should not be cheated because illegal aliens were counted and the hispanic people deserve better then short change because illegal aliens are falsely counted toward the count. I think Greg should demand the all the hispanic count be verify so the American people are not cheated.