Dems to return to Texas

The Dallas Morning News ^ | September 9, 2003 | ROBERT T. GARRETT and WAYNE SLATER

[mewzilla]

LOL. The Chicken Ds are coming home to roost...

[CedarDave]

Won't be missed here in NM.

[Dead Corpse]

Tell the Dems to go back to NM. We don't need, nor do we WANT, them here.

[Dead Corpse]

Sorry CD. You sure you can't use 'em for fertilizer generation or something?

[tractorman]

Time for a good old fashioned Texas roundup.

[mabelkitty]

This needs to go to court.

If this is allowed, then Ohio better redistrict and get rid of Democrats. They have no business even being in Congress in a Republican controlled Governorship and Legislature.

[jimt]

The Democrats say that Mr. Dewhurst violated minorities' voting rights in late July when he chose in the redistricting flap to dispense with a Senate rule in use since the 1950s. The rule says two-thirds of the senators must agree to debate a bill before it can be heard.

As usual, the 'rats are LYING. There is a senate rule that requires a two-thirds vote to take up business out of order. a tradition, not a rule, has been to have an innocuous bill at the head of the agenda, thus requiring a two-thirds vote to get around the "blocker" bill. This tradition has been disregarded numerous times in senate history, including on the issue of redistricting.

'rats are by nature, liars.

[Ron H.]

Mr. Whitmire said a big reason he returned to Texas was worry over loss of the rule, which he said would leave Democrats with no voice on education, the state budget, health care and abortion.

Mr Whitmire, you shouldn't be too concerned as you can still count on RINO's like Bill RATliff and his ilk. There are several "closet" RINO's you can still count on.

"We're here to tell the story of recount, recall and re-redistricting, the new three R's of Republican extremism," said Mr. Shapleigh, of El Paso.

"We're here to tell the story of Distort, Delay and Deny, the new three D's of Democrat extreme liberalism," said Mr. Shapleigh, of El Paso.

[justshutupandtakeit]

And the Lyin' Clymers can count on the fact that the mindnumbed zombies who vote RAT won't remember that the RATS were the ones wanting recounts in Florida and the lyin' mthrfckng media won't point out that LIE.

[Between the Lines]

"We're here to tell the story of recount, recall and re-redistricting, the new three R's of Republican extremism," said Mr. Shapleigh, of El Paso.

And they will tell that story using the three D's of Democratic extremism… deceit, demagoguery and divisiveness.

[freekitty]

Can't we atleast lock down on borders this time so they can't come back?

[DrewsDad]

On Monday, three Texas senators visited South Florida to say Republicans have shown a "national pattern of abuse of power" by trying to scrap Democratic congressional districts and overturn elections the GOP lost.

Texas state Sens. Mario Gallegos, Eliot Shapleigh and Gonzalo Barrientos were joined by several Florida Democratic legislators, who wore small Texas flag pins.

Wish I would have known. I was in South Florida Monday Morning and could have freeped my own Runaway Rat Senator.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep !

Here is a list of recent articles on Redistricting:

FR Search: Keyword "Redistricting"

07-31-2003
Dewhurst: I'm honoring tradition and precedent
(Article exposes ‘RAT Lies!!)
Congressional districts in Texas today are essentially those drawn by a partisan Legislature in 1991. At that time, a national publication called the Texas map the most outrageously gerrymandered redistricting effort in the nation, resulting in Democratic strength in our congressional delegation well beyond its representation among voters.

Our congressional lines are even more outdated today. When the Legislature failed to draw new lines to accommodate Texas' two new congressional seats in 2001, the job fell to a federal court. The judges made the fewest changes possible to the existing 1991 map, in essence protecting incumbents.

07-19-2003
[Texas] Senators talk of boycotting any redistricting session
Mr. Dewhurst said he would be on solid ground in working around the Senate tradition requiring a two-thirds vote to take up a bill. The late Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock, a Democrat, did the same thing in a 1992 special session on legislative redistricting, Mr. Dewhurst said.

07-15-2003
Ratliff joins Democrats to oppose redistricting
The state Republican Party was quick to point out that the [2/3rd’s] rule has been abandoned on occasion – such as when the Senate took up a state senatorial redistricting plan in 1992.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks, DG ! ...

[MeekOneGOP]

AP
Texas Senators Eliot Shapleigh, Mario Gallegos and
Gonzalo Barrientos are joined by Fla. Sen. Frederica
Wilson at a Monday news conference in Hollywood, Fla.

[lowbridge]

renegade Texas Democrats

Renegade. I like that.

renegade

adj : having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper" [syn: recreant]
n 1: someone who rebels and becomes and outlaw [syn: turncoat]
2: a disloyal person who forsakes his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: deserter, apostate, recreant]
v : break with established customs [syn: rebel]

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! Yep. I was surprised when I saw The Dallas Morning News use 'renegade'
in the first sentence (or anywhere in the article, for that matter) ...

[anymouse]

I say we let the Chicken D's cool their heals in the Austin city jail until they poney up the fines that they owe.

[anymouse]

poney = pony + an 'e' from money :)