Posted on 02/15/2012 1:49:31 PM PST by onyx
SAN ANTONIO:
In the final moments of Tuesday’s redistricting hearing, a three-judge panel said Texas’ primary elections likely will not occur before May 29.
While Judge Jerry Smith, one of three federal judges in the San Antonio redistricting case, said the likely date of the primaries will be May 29, he did not commit to the date. Smith, however, told the state’s two major political political parties that they should prepare proposals based on that assumption
The Republican Party of Texas and the Texas Democratic Party will prepare a schedule in the coming days that will include dates for early voting and runoffs. They also will determine when to reopen the filing period for candidates looking to run for office.
Candidate filing was suspended earlier this year as the legal battle over Texas’ congressional and legislative districts dragged on.
Lawyers for the state and attorneys representing clients that are suing the state over the Legislature’s redistricting maps also managed to reach an agreement on an interim state Senate map to be used in the 2012 elections. They still have not agreed upon a state House maps or a congressional map.
Congressional District 25, which is currently occupied by Doggett, D-Austin, remained a major sticking point.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Yes He is
When he told a friend of mine in Lockhart that he just doesn’t understand how things work I realized just how out of touch dogshIt is.
I keep hearing WOAI radio news people say the whole redistrictiing problem is over Repuclican and Hispanic districts... I keep wondering when did Hispanic become a political party?
The Austin La Raza chapter insists there are more Hispanic reps. We have several Hispanic neighbors and one couple was going door to door handing out GOP flyers last election. I have a feeling many of the dims are out of touch with hard working Hispanics.
I heard they were dividing his district up—and I’m hoping he will lose—or that at least he won’t be my rep any longer.
Oh I agree its just the way the media makes it sound like there are “republican districts and hispanic districts.”
I have said all along that hard working prolife profamily hispanics are conservative and they don’t even know it.
I wish lord dog S*** would come and talk to Sandra and Mark up the street from us. She would give him an earful of things that are wrong in the US, including illegal immigration. They are 5th or 6th generation legal immigrants.
When you wonder about what “they” are going to decide, are you referring to the political parties in general, or to Orlando Garcia and Xavier Rodriguez, with Jerry Smith dissenting?
No, the two Federal Judges that are delaying the primary dates, and making null and void the redistricting that was accomplished by our legislature, have thrown the people, and State of Texas and state parties election process into utter chaos, and are deciding when the state convention is held.
The Primary Elections are not only for the purpose of polling voters as to which presidential and other candidates they prefer to be listed as party candidates on the General Election ballot, delegates to the County and District Conventions are elected at the Precinct Conventions held right after the polls close. The County and District Conventions are held in part to have an election by these elected delegates to select delegates to represent Counties and Districts at the State Convention, where delegates are named to represent States at the National Convention.
By holding the primary dates and redistricting hostage to the whims of two Federal Judges, the Federal Government has seized control of State Parties with a Convention System as well as the prerogatives of the State of Texas, and therefore; the state party does not decide when the state convention is held.
By holding the primary dates and redistricting hostage to the whims of two Federal Judges, the Federal Government has seized control of State Parties with a Convention System as well as the prerogatives of the State of Texas, and therefore; the state party does not decide when the state convention is held.
Right. So let’s look at it this way: you normally get engaged on March 6, so that you have time to arrange for guests, showers, parties, etc. until the June wedding.
Instead, your mother comes in and says “no, you can’t get engaged until May 29 and do everything I tell you between now and May 29, at which time I might let you actually get engaged, but which is still just a tentative date, but then you must still have your wedding date in June, which really must be in June because the Honeymoon date is already set for August in Tampa, Florida.
What could be more reasonable than that?
You still seriously contend that the parties are setting the date for their state conventions?!
This is nit picking. When the districts are determined, the primary can happen and the parties decide when to have their convention after that. Not one thing can happen until the districts are decided, period, and that’s where we are.
No, it’s not nit-picking. If you think arranging for the Texas State Republican convention is so easy, call your convention committee chairman and ask how easy it is to even obtain a facility for one of the largest political conventions in the world. And at short notice? You obviously have no appreciation for the tremendous amount of detailed work holding the Texas State Convention entails.
And you are forgetting that after Judges Orlando Garcia and Xavier Rodriguez finally magnanimously decide to draw our district lines for us, dates for filing for office have to be reopened, a process already completed back in December before these Federal Judges hijacked Texas’ election process?
And don’t forget, voter registration cannot be completed either until these Judges decide these questions, and voter registration cards are mailed out, and people figure out who the candidates are in their new districts, and how will this leave time for voters to get to know the positions of the candidates and for the candidates to run a campaign? Answer, they can’t and won’t.
How do the delegates and all the attendees of the conventions and party members who work these elections feel about being unable to plan for what dates they will have to work the primary election, attend county and district conventions, state convention, etc. all because two Federal Judges have hijacked the Texas political system? We taxpaying citizen-participants have to plan our jobs and our lives and our business around all these dates, dates as yet unknown, because of this outrageous conduct of two Federal Judges.
This is costing the political parties and county governments, and state governments and thus the taxpayers and people of Texas a ton of money as well.
So, I do not agree that having to put up with these meddling Federal Government political appointees and all the mischief they are causing is in any sense “nit-picking”.
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