Here’s hoping.
“Elections have consequences”. In Texas the R’s won, live with it.
Wah.
Maybe that idiot Sheila Jackson Lee will be finally kicked out of office.
Texas redistricting always goes to a Democrat challenge when a Republican is sitting in the governor’s office.
That’s what’s at the heart of the Tom DeLay case years ago. Chris Sissy Bell (three time loser Democrat) lost his seat to a BLACK democrat and he was angry at Mr. DeLay so he filed a lame duck ethics charge.
The Chicken-Dees fled the STATE to avoid voting on the districts.
And it continues every decade, but no longer thanks to the Supreme Court.
Texas redistricting always goes to a Democrat challenge when a Republican is sitting in the governor’s office.
That’s what’s at the heart of the Tom DeLay case years ago. Chris Sissy Bell (three time loser Democrat) lost his seat to a BLACK democrat and he was angry at Mr. DeLay so he filed a lame duck ethics charge.
The Chicken-Dees fled the STATE to avoid voting on the districts.
And it continues every decade, but no longer thanks to the Supreme Court.
Seriously? They’re getting a minimum of 20 MILLION voters very very soon.
Democrats mean it will be harder to cheat.
Like the Supreme Court reasoned, as neighborhoods become less segregated and more diverse, wouldn’t one expect the number of single-minority dominated districts to decrease? Also, as our society gets more inclusive and less segregated wouldn’t the concerns of communities get more homogenous?
Why is it obvious that we need to have districts with representation ordained to be from a specific minority? Perhaps that time has passed.
vaudine
COULD BE.. traitors.. have become MAJORITY..
THEN what “the PEOPLE” want IS anti-american..
and patriotism is a “fringe” position..
If so America DESERVES punishment by BArry HAlf-White..
and the Full-half-and non WHiteians..
Note: Barry is no more black than he is white..
Saying barry is black is a LIE.... He is as white as he is black..
Maybe they can finally get rid of Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Mars).
But it's the original VRA itself that packs blacks into minority-majority districts. Frost wishes he could be free to gerrymander just enough blacks into adjoining districts to turn R seats D.
It will be interesting to see what this amounts to in real terms.
One of the arguments the SCOTUS used were that by concentrating minorities into a few districts to guarantee them seats, it also guaranteed that outside of those districts, white voters would also have guaranteed seats, and this would encourage both “hard left” minority seats and “hard right” majority seats.
However it also means something else. When a winning candidate has to be a minority, quality goes out the window.
A well funded kook like Cynthia McKinney will consistently win in such minority districts, because there is no reasonable minority challenger who can get the funding to challenge her.
As such, minority voters are denied sane, honest representation. Instead, without minority gerrymandered districts, if they have to choose between candidates, they actually get a choice, and race is only one factor. And since blacks are a minority, they know that white candidates won’t be completely malevolent, since they have lived with white representatives before.
So things like McKinney being stark raving mad might actually mean more than that she is black.
Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah. Finally some good news.