|
My thread supporting Jace Yarbrough in the GOP primary must have timed out, but he won the primary easily and will be up for the November election in the presumptively-safe GOP seat. I saw some good podcast episodes with him and he looks pretty good to me. Unfortunately not my district. He's been starting out strong on Twitter. https://x.com/JaceYarbrough
District map: Attached File |
|
Attached File |
|
|
Originally Posted By Gopher: This may be an unpopular take, but when will we draw districts by population instead of ethnic makeup? We already are drawing them by population. It's gerrymandering that causes the weird boundaries. Texas Redistricting "...Two primary requirements govern redistricting. First, representative districts of a given type (senate, house, congressional, and the State Board of Education (SBOE) as well as local government single-member districts) must have equal or nearly equal populations. Second, districts must be drawn in a manner that neither has the purpose nor will have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or language group. These requirements are based in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the Equal Protection Clause), the Fifteenth Amendment (prohibiting voting discrimination based on race), the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, and, for congressional districts, Section 2, Article I, of the U.S. Constitution...." If you want districts drawn at random just based on population, dont be surprised with the results. Gerrymandering keeps the party in power because they are the ones who get to draw the boundaries. 
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE
|