Ideological Rift Rears Head at Texas GOP Convention
The whole thing kicked off with a "Kumbaya" moment. On the Friday morning of the Republican Party of Texas' biennial convention in Dallas, at a breakfast meeting of the Texas Federation of Republican Women, primary foes U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry made nice on stage, with Hutchison formally endorsing Perry and touting him as “the governor who will keep Texas on the right path in 2010.”
Yet if an old rivalry was laid to rest, by the end of the next day, when the 14,000 or so delegates had loaded up their Suburbans plastered ...
Comments (4)
SusanShelton
There are 32 Senate Districts in Texas. There are 31 US Congressional Districts.
Morgan Smith
That's actually incorrect — there are 31 state senate districts. Here's the link to the Texas State Senate: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/Senate/Members.htm
SusanShelton
I had it backwards. Clearly, the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet!
PeteWrench
And the number of state senators is set by the Texas Constitution, which cannot be changed without a constitutional amendment. The number of U.S. representatives changes, or at least can change, every decade after the U.S. Census and legislative redistricting.