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Goodbye Martin Frost! Hello seven new GOP districts in Texas!

Being in Frost's district now, I hope you know what you are talking about!!! You sure Frost is toast??

[sinkspur]

You sure Frost is toast??

If he runs against Joe Barton, he is.

The heavily Democrat "stop six" area of Fort Worth is now in Eddie Bernice Johnson's district.

The rest of it (Arlington, Mansfield and the Mid-Cities) is dead-cold Republican. And is now represented by Joe Barton.

Martin will have to move before the March primary if he wants to run in another district.

[Gorjus]

You sure Frost is toast??

Certainly his district is. His district has been divided among several new ones, taking away any reasonable likliehood he'd win any one of them. He can shop around for another district, but it will be a challenge.

What the media won't report is that the Republican districting plan is likely to increase minority representation (assuming one buys into the assumption that minority representation can only come from someone of that minority - I do not), especially Hispanic. Before, Martin Frost's gerrymandering (and he was the principal architect in 1990) put a lot of Hispanics and African-Americans together to make guaranteed Democrat districts, but with the only viable compromise candidates being 'white' Democrats. And of course, Frost packed Republicans as densely as possible into as few districts as possible. Now, the districts are drawn so that (mostly) Anglo Republicans will replace some Anglo Democrats, and Hispanics Democrats will likely replace other Anglo Democrats.

The key is, Anglo Dem Frost is very likely to be looking for a job.

[Liz]

Martin Frost is the Congressman that everyone was looking forward to being redistricted out. No one deserves ousting more than Frost.

The Texas Department of Public Safety investigated the theft of a Texas state employee's property that found its way from Texas into the hands of Martin Frost who produced it in Washington, DC.

On April 10, 2003, a folio containing Texas congressional redistricting maps were stolen from a committee room in the state capitol. The folio and its contents belonged to a Republican legislative aide, and therefore, was very valuable to Frost's reelection chances.

DPS had video footage of three men, including one identified as Frost senior aide Gerry Hebert, apparently leaving the committee room with the stolen maps.

Shortly after the theft, Rep. Frost produced one of the purloined maps to news reporters in Washington, D.C.

DPS investigated the theft as a class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $2,000 fine and 180 days in jail. If the pilfered goods were transported from Texas to Washington, D.C., the crime would be a federal offense. Looks like Frost escapes the law but ousting him would be a penalty he richly deserves.

[harpu]

Let us pray he's gone!