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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (265188)12/20/2005 1:30:20 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1577449
 
I doubt that was the reason.

You doubt but you are not sure.

I also doubt that we will both simultanously be hit by lighting tomorrow at noon Eastern time, but then again I can't really be sure.

Also apparently minority representation was not reduced.

"Actually, though, what Pelosi and others are upset about is not that minority voters in Texas lost power under the new plan — they didn’t — but rather that the 2003 redistricting plan bumped off four white Democrats and replaced them with Republicans. That sounds like redistricting business as usual to us: After the 1990 census, Texas Democrats had drawn an equally gerrymandered map. In other states — such as Maryland — Democrats remain in control and Republicans have lost congressional seats. Nobody has called the process in Maryland “illegal” or demanded a special inquiry. That Texas (unlike Maryland) is “covered” by the Voting Rights Act has given Democrats in the Lone Star State an excuse to use the statute to camouflage what are, in fact, partisan charges.

Conveniently, you choose to ignore the real issue here. Redistricting has never been a good thing; nonetheless, both parties have done it in the past right after a new census. However, Delay and GOP decided to take it a step further and do it twice in three years. Probably they would have done it a couple times more before the decade was out had they not been stopped by other events.

The GOP took a quasi corrupt method of amassing power and moved it up a notch. In other words, its typical of their behavior for the past ten years.

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