Two New Texas Latino Seats in Congress?
The public version of drawing new congressional maps for Texas started this morning with committee hearings and the unveiling of a proposal from a coalition that insists at least two of the four new districts should have Latino majorities.
The chairmen of the Senate and House committees that will draw those and other maps, meanwhile, both said today that they'll be trying to draw new maps that are fair, that are legal, and that make the greatest number of legislators happy.
"The process won't be driven by assertion or insistence but by the numbers," said Sen. Kel Seliger ...
Comments (3)
Tim Hurst via Texas Tribune on Facebook
redistricting is the biggest joke of all time. Evil stuff
Robi Polgar via Texas Tribune on Facebook
2+2=5!
Michael B Openshaw
Easy enough to do and appropriate. It is ALSO appropriate that there would be three GOP-centric and one Dem-centric districts. How to accomplish that? Simple; one district controlled by an Anglo Dem gets padded up to make it Latino-centric. Count on that being the outcome.
This IS about ETHNIC minority representation, is it not? Not PARTY minority representation.