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To: HostileTerritory
I hope for their sakes that both Frost and Marchant were at the gym or sleeping when this news broke. I don't think their hearts could have taken it.

hehe .. we might have some more breaking news soon. ;^)

So, getting back to TX-23, you probably cannot redraw those lines to restore that many Latino voters without redrawing at least: TX-23 (Bonilla -R), TX-28 (Cuellar -D), TX-25 (Doggett -D), TX-15 (Hinojosa -D), TX-21 (Smith -R), TX-11 (Conaway -R), and perhas TX-20 (Gonzalez -D) and TX-27 (Ortiz -D).

The big questions of course are how soon it has to get done and how drastic the remedy will be. It may very well be that the impact is limited to Bonilla/Cuellar, or it may be that the effects ripple across multiple other South Texas districts.

86 posted on 06/28/2006 7:54:27 AM PDT by AntiGuv ("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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To: AntiGuv

Yep, this is what I'm seeing as well. The real question in my mind is whether the redistricting will be court-imposed or court-required of the Leg to do.

Down there, I can't see how the changes can be limited to Bonilla/Cuellar unless the northern part of Cuellar's district can be lopped off to Bonilla to suffice for gaining the other part of Webb County, and somehow I don't think the numbers would work. The issue on the whole in re-re-re-districting will be the southern part of Bexar County.

Otherwise, I think a re-districting solution could affect areas up to Austin (maybe not CD-10) over to CD-14.

Of course, all this is moot, if the court imposes a solution.


112 posted on 06/28/2006 9:34:43 AM PDT by Sam Spade
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