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Representatives claim newly drawn congressional districts violate the law By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, October 30, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Texas Democrats, meeting Wednesday with Justice Department lawyers, declared that the state's newly drawn congressional districts should be tossed out because they reduce minority voting strength. The nine Democrats, from districts with heavy concentrations of African American and Hispanic voters, sought to refute Republican claims that the GOP-drawn map creates 11 minority-controlled districts, unchanged from the previous map. Looking at the same numbers, Democrats see 10 districts where minority voters can determine election results, a decline that would violate the...

Here's more context Re: Sept. 20 column by Arnold Garcia, "Difference of opinion? Fine. But the Red Scare, this is not": Garcia says that people have a right to some context with the link between the Communist Party USA and MoveOn.org. While he gave the simplistic context that MoveOn.org's Glenn Smith did not give permission to CPUSA to have a link, he failed to note a further context that should be considered: Organizations carefully select the links they put on their Web sites. They know that when a surfer leaves a site through a link, they have lost their attention....