[Cincinatus' Wife]

FLASHBACK: Texas Dems Fled State In 2003 To Block GOP Re-Redistricting Plan "Back in May 2003, Republicans in Texas wanted to redo the 2001 redistricting plan to pick up an easy four seats in the House of Representatives. Problem was, just like Fitzgerald and Walker in Wisconsin, they needed a quorum in the legislature to get anything done.

So Texas House Democrats skipped town.

Republicans called out the state troopers and even the Texas Rangers (the ones in law enforcement, not baseball) to hard them back to Austin. But they’d all holed up in a hotel just across the border in Oklahoma, and didn’t return until they’d secured a promise that the redistricting plan would be shelved.

That summer, Governor Rick Perry called a special legislative session to renew the fight. For round two, 11 of the state’s 12 Democratic senators high-tailed it to Albuquerque for a month, frustrating Texas Republicans once again. The standoff continued until one of them returned to Texas, and the redistricting effort passed."....

[fieldmarshaldj]

Cut the crap and the obfuscation and answer the question.

Who appointed the unknown liberal Democrat attorney Xavier Rodriguez to the bench ?

WHO ?