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• Current redistricting plan
• Plan 1268C approved by the House
• Plan 1313C proposed by Todd Staples
• Plan 1314C proposed by Jeff Wentworth

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fyi...... The 'I will' ... No 'I will' continues....

[Texas_Jarhead]

"The 1992 special session was intended to set aside a state Senate redistricting plan ordered by a Republican federal court."

When is the last time (or any time) that this fish wrap passing as a newspaper referred to a federal court as a "Democratic federal court"? What a bunch of partisan jackasses. Man they suck!

[MeekOneGOP]

From the first article:

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.

But Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, the Senate's longest-serving member, said senators in 1992 "started out in agreement" on rules. "We didn't run over anybody," he said.

So what's Whitmire saying then? Bipartisanship only works ONE way ? The GOP will work with the 'RATS when the 'RATS hold the edge, but not vice-versa ?!?!?

AND, it's ok for the 'RATS to break precedent on the 2/3rd's rule, but the GOP better NOT do that ???

Man !! Am I reading that correctly ???

[MeekOneGOP]

Here is a list of recent articles on Redistricting:

FR Search: Keyword "Redistricting"

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.

07-18-2003
New map, same pain for Dems
(Texas Redistricting fun)

07-17-2003
New map surfacing in Texas Senate

07-16-2003
Dewhurst at crossroads on redistricting in Texas Senate

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.

07-09-2003
DROP IT -- Redistricting would benefit few Texans, harm many
(Editorial)

07-08-2003
Senators have problems with House redistricting map - Texas redistricting

07-08-2003
House passes remap
Veteran Democrats may lose seats if bill goes through Senate

Above article is worthy of showing that a picture indeed is worth a thousand words:
First the Chicken D’s run away to Ardmore, Oklahoma. That didn’t work, so here they are,
still having a fit during the Redistricting debate:

As King began his argument for the new congressional boundaries Monday afternoon, about 30 Democrats in the gallery donned white socks as hand puppets to mock King. Every time he spoke, the little white mouths flapped.

07-07-2003
TEXAS REDISTRICTING--Vote TONIGHT!

07-07-2003
Race rhetoric stokes Texas redistricting fire

07-07-2003
Tension may soar as map debate hits House floor - Texas redistricting

07-06-2003
House panel quickly passes Republican redistricting plan -
map likely to unseat six Democrats

07-04-2003
New GOP map restores (Rep. Martin Frost's) district

07-03-2003
Republicans pull proposed map - redistricting

07-03-2003
Chamber of Commerce and GI Forum Hire Temps to Testify

07-02-2003
The Great Texas Power Grab - redistricting

07-01-2003
Tx Democrats Trying Fight, Not Flight, Over Districts
(The-Terrific-Texan-Special-Session)

[jagrmeister]

Here's what I'd like to see. First, stick a pacifier in the mouth of every Democrat. No adult runs from a fight. Second, throw every Democrat who runs from the Senate in jail and dock their salary for refusing to do the job the people elected them to do. Third, make no apologies for actions 1 and 2.

[solo gringo]

Lets see how many of the democreeps get elected after they fled to oklahoma to keep from doing the peoples business.
I SAY LETS DUMP ALL DEMOCREEPS IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
If they run unoposed do like i do write your own name in.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

Dewhurst said once a second session begins, he will not allow the use of a "blocker" bill -- a long-standing Senate practice that empowers the chamber's minority by requiring a two-thirds vote to open debate.

My faith in Dewhurst is somewhat renewed by this news. Republicans have to USE the rules to our advantage just like the cowardly Rats ABUSE the rules to theirs. The Dems and the media will make a big stink and cry no matter what; we might as well get what is equitable done. Maybe Dewhurst's statement will get Armbrister and Madla or Lucio aboard on one of the less ambitious maps, like Wentworth's (as compared to the regular session or this session's House map). I'd be alright with that.

[pulaskibush]

I'm not clear as to what law says that redistricting should be done. I heard that it was in the Texas Constitution. Every once in a while people will talk about it.

Showing people the law that the Texas demoncrats are breaking will show how anti-American their partisan acts are. Although some people will never see the light.

[Dog Gone]

The Rats would be making a big mistake by boycotting. It's no different than when the GOP took the hit for shutting down the federal government in 1995.

They can't hide forever. These folks are paid only a token salary to begin with, and they have to get back to their real jobs eventually.

The Rats will lose this battle. The question is whether it will be gracefully or ugly.