A Winding Route to New Texas Congressional Map
When it comes to congressional redistricting in Texas, inaction is louder than words.
It’s all but certain now that when Texans go to the polls next year, they’ll elect their 36 members of Congress from maps drawn by federal judges — not by state legislators.
Texas outgrew the rest of the states during the last decade and, as a result, will have four more seats in Congress.
Three members of the congressional delegation are in dangerous waters. Francisco "Quico" Canseco of San Antonio and Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi are both freshman Republicans who won in districts that usually ...
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Stephen Lloyd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
here we go again
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Once this goes to court, it will interesting to see how the gop/tparty justify to the court why Austin should be diced up like it had been shoved through some type of deranged vegimatic. It is absurd! But I was happy to note the following quote,m "Most of the state’s population growth from 2000 to 2010 — 89 percent of it — was in minority populations, and most of that was attributed to Hispanics. Looking forward to seeing gop/tparty justify why all these new congressional seats are being drawn up in such a way as to be clear this whole process has been to rig future elections. See ya in court!
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There is yet another option. Either the House or Senate or both could pass a legislative resolution with a map that would provide guidance to the courts. See page eight of this document: http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/pubspol/redlaw01/redlaw01.pdf.
It would still go to the courts for a final decision but the public would have had no opportunity to even comment on the plan.
Linda Childs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dale - "Deranged vegematic"! That's such a fantastic description! :)