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To: Proud_texan
“What's the conflict over the 25th? I'm guessing that the black minority thinks the white guy represents them while the change would very likely result in a brown guy being elected.”

Not exactly, but close. It was a Mexican-American Texas Legislature Democrat representative (don't think he is senator, but could be), who filed the law suit. He thought the lines were discriminating against Mexican-Americans.

Our primaries were in March, but this law suit happened, so they moved it to April 3, thinking it would be done by then. Well, it isn't, so now it's May 29.

7 posted on 02/15/2012 2:22:02 PM PST by Marcella ((Newt will smash Hussein in debates. Newt needs money.))
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To: Marcella

Well, it isn’t, so now it’s May 29.


That even maybe optimistic as I’m seeing June tossed out as a possibility.

Super Tuesday was the orginal schedule which would have allowed Texas to be in the first 35% of delegates selected. Pushing it back to Apr. 3 put the percentage to 63%. Now in late May it will be at 85% or higher if it goes into June.

One possibility is to have the Presidential primary split off from the others and that could still be on Apr. 3, but time is critical for that date along with the expense involved.

It appears some 50+ state house district lines are under discussion and I’m sure some state senate districts also. I think Sen. Wendy Davis got his old district back pretty much intact from what I’ve see.

Still a mess.


11 posted on 02/15/2012 2:34:35 PM PST by deport (..............God Bless Texas............)
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To: Marcella
Thanks. I wondered because when the map was first released some Mexican-American guy was gonna run since the redrawn district looked favorable to him and I figured the repukes were trying to get rid of Doggett.

Which one one hand I can understand, who wants to work with a complete idiot but then on the other hand he's not only a complete dork he's also ineffective.

To me the way the map was drawn they were taking it away from the Austin commies and giving it to the Mexicans but there ya go.

14 posted on 02/15/2012 2:39:09 PM PST by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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To: Marcella
I found the article from last August that caused my confusion:

New contenders join Congressional District 25 race

At that point Doggett was going to jump to CD-33 and Rep. Joaquin Castro was going to run against him in the primary. Because CD-33 as originally drawn was more San Antonio than Austin it looked like Castro had a good shot.

The dim Michael Williams was going to run in CD-25 against a whole slew of other guys.

But I guess all of this is out the window.br
39 posted on 02/16/2012 5:33:30 AM PST by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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