“I said, “if.” I have no reason to believe that Rodriquez has any grudge.”
Now you are being disinegenuous. YOU brought the grudge thing up, in effect declaring Judge Rodriguez has reasons to have a grudge - against, who? the people of Texas? Because that is who he has seized power from.
“Stephen Wayne Smith: who accused the Governor of only appointing Rodriquez because he is Hispanic.”
Again, you are the one who brought up Smith, who I was entirely unfamiliar with, but are you saying Smith’s accusation (which I seriously doubt was phrased as you put it) against Perry was entirely without merit? Is no one allowed to question the appointment of a gubernatorial appointment with questionable experience? If this Smith made the accusation, and Rodriguez was fully qualified for the position he was appointed to, why don’t you make your case instead of just throwing a sentence out there as if what you just said carries any weight as a stand-alone sentence?
“No one is more unhappy about the new Congressional maps than I. However, I didn’t like the Legislature’s much, either, because both split our Comal County.”
So, because of some local county re-districting disagreement you have with the legislature, you can’t see the difference between redistricting by the duly-elected legislature and redistricting by Federal Judicial Fiat? Who cares if you didn’t care much for your duly-elected legilatures’ redistricting decision? At least it was done according to the will of the people as reflected through the legislative process!
“At least the State Senator map will still let me support and vote for Dr. Donna Campbell against the RINO Jeff Wentworth.”
Goody for you. Now I suppose you are happy. But I think there are lots of people more unhappy that you about this exercise of judicial tyranny over the people of this state.
Yes, the Congressional map - and especially the State House map - was over-gerrymandered by the Legislature, in my opinion and that of the Texas Eagle Forum ( http://texaseagle.org/component/content/article/332.html “ The new Texas House Redistricting Map pits Republican incumbents against each other as payback for voting against Straus for speaker.”) and others, largely in order to punish enemies of the Speaker and Duncan.