Posted on 10/18/2021 3:45:59 AM PDT by cotton1706
Texas Republicans have come up with a congressional redistricting plan. The plan would, in the loaded words of the Washington Post, “siphon[] off thousands of [Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s] Black constituents and potentially forc[e] her into a primary election against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green.”
This is a wonderful development. Jackson Lee, who once compared the Tea Party to the KKK, has no redeeming quality I’ve ever detected.
Green seems like a good guy (once, after a congressional hearing, he invited a friend of mine with whose testimony he disagreed to lunch). However, his over-the-top demands that Donald Trump be impeached before Trump had done anything even arguably impeachable (that is, before the Ukraine-Joe/Hunter Biden business) make him a good candidate for forced retirement.
Naturally, Jackson Lee and Green are unhappy about the proposed congressional map. And naturally, they are playing the race card. They call new districting lines “an act of racial discrimination.”
But neither member of Congress has a God-given right to represent a safe district. Neither has a God-given right not to have to compete for White votes.
Democrats use Black voters to get rid of Republican members via redistricting. It happened to my former representative, Republican Connie Morella.
Morella wasn’t even a conservative. She was a centrist. But Democrats couldn’t stand the thought of her representing a solidly Blue district, so they tried to redistrict her out of Congress.
The first attempt didn’t work. Morella was so likeable and so good at constituent services that she survived.
Determined to take the seat, the Democrats tried again. Before the 2002 election, they removed yet more territory where Morella did well from her district and added areas that are predominantly Black.
It worked. Morella lost 51-48 to Chris Van Hollen, who is now a U.S. Senator.
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Can’t be both?
The Democrats will find a judge to overturn the redistricting map proposal.
Sorry Surinder Monkeys that enjoy whining about “Republicans never fighting back.”
Try not to let this spoil your day.
Rep.Green is a hirsute homunculus.
CC
Democrats will offset these losses through redistricting Republicans out in New York, Illinois, California, and Colorado. I understand they’ve already redrawn Boebert’s district so she no longer lives in it.
That's a tough one - not sure who is stupider.
Any Freepers in their districts?
Can Adam Kinzinger claim racial bias in the gerrymandering that the dimocrats inflicted on him just recently?
Man, I hope SJL goes.
Sheila can go visit the flag on Mars.
“The Democrats will find a judge to overturn the redistricting map proposal.”
In Texas, and in every single state — at least the important ones — where Republicans have any say in the matter at all. Count on it.
Meanwhile Democrat gerrymanders that have already been created (IL, CO, NM) and ones yet to come (CA, NY, AZ, NJ, VA, MD, WA, OR, etc.) will go unchallenged, or those challenges will be dismissed by a liberal judge, probably for the usual “lack of standing” reason that is always dredged up whenever Democrat election shenanigans might risk being exposed.
i didn’t think that SJL actually lived in her district?
Break out the “Movin’ on Up” song...lol.
As usual, you don’t have a clue.
Republicans got the map that they wanted from the commission in Colorado. In neutral years it will be 4-4 in a Blue State. The Democrats were furious.
The Illinois map has the potential to be a dummymander and Kalifornia is drawn by a commission, not the legislature.
I noticed that you left out that The GOP is trying for a 12-2 map in NC and in Virginia where the voters passed a redistricting Amendment, the commission favored map is likely to result in GOP pickups there.
You are a Democrat plant and aren’t even very good at your job.
LOL, I had to look that one up, that k you😄
Commissions draw the maps in Kalifornia, Arizona and Virginia.
The commission drawn map in Virginia is certainly going to result in GOP pickups.
The proposed WA map was a status quo map that the GOP played hardball to get.
Arizona and Kalifornia aren’t done yet.
NJ, OR, IL and MD were always going to be gerrymanders.
The GOP controls far more redistricting than the Democrats, and despite your constant eeyoring, it will almost certainly result in more GOP seats than Democrat ones.
It’s like having to choose between your two very favorite flavors of ice cream. I honestly can decide which would benefit the Republic better by being gone
Al Greene is a moron. Sheila Lee will eat him for lunch.
How about we treat this as a Ginger vs. Mary Ann question and answer: BOTH!
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