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To: Joe NYC who wrote (246863)	8/21/2005 7:15:25 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572326

"If that is the case, you can have a computer come up with the shapes of the districts, and it would always come closer (in numerical outcome) to the DeLay redistricting than to Democrat redistricting." Doubt it seriously. For one, the previous districts were done under court order because the legislature couldn't agree. For another, about 58% of Texans have been voting Republican, now we have 20 out of 32 districts with Republican representatives. They combined several of the Democratic representatives into the same district and created these long(as in hundreds of miles), winding districts that split up counties that are otherwise homogeneous. The only way you would have a computer program come up with these districts is if it was done on a contract by DeLay... Which, for me, is the big issue. Not only did this whole thing distract the legislature from doing there real job, it was funded mainly with money from outside the state. It wasn't done with local issues in mind, but with national ones. Apparently some of the ways the money was handled were violations of Texas law, and that might just catch up with Hot Tub Tom. Two of his top dogs in the deal are under indictment and it seems pretty cut and dried.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (246863)	8/22/2005 1:17:16 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572326

Yep, the Republicans constantly stated that as a reason for redistricting... You mean the latest one? I thought it was because Texas has been voting Republican lately, by a solid margin, but the congressional representation was Democratic, again by a solid margin. If that is the case, you can have a computer come up with the shapes of the districts, and it would always come closer (in numerical outcome) to the DeLay redistricting than to Democrat redistricting. If you asked me, I am all for geometric shapes that are concentrated around their center of gravity. TX is the only state in the Union to gerrymander their districts twice in 5 years......thanks to Tom Delay. Oh btw he's a GOPer.