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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:42 AM
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AP: Gerrymandering Texas (how DeLay and the GOP took control )
Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 06:55 AM by ProSense
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Texas has been a big beneficiary of the shift in political power, making a Supreme Court fight over the boundaries of its congressional districts even more important, said Bruce Buchanan, a political science professor at the University of Texas.

Republicans redrew the boundaries in 2003 after taking control of the state legislature, and then gained six House seats in the 2004 elections. Democrats and minority voting groups sued.

"You nail down Texas and you have a growth engine for your political party," Buchanan said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051222/ap_on_re_us/population_states


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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:59 AM
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1. What's not mentioned in this article is that the entire division
of career lawyers in the the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department opined UNANIMOUSLY that this gerrymandering was illegal but were overridden by a single Bush political appointee. Disgusting.

We don't have Civil Rights when the Justice department effectively dismantles that division which has the responsibility for enforcement. It's more of that, "yeah? who's gonna make me?" attitude of this administration.
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