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Ref: Texas Redistricting Vote and Special Sessions
From The Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald Editorial Letters : History Repeating? Soon after the Civil War, a Republican congressional leader named Thaddeus Stevens was said to have argued that the of the South "ought never to be recognized as valid states until the Constitution shall have been so amended ... as to secure perpetual ascendancy" to the Republican Party. Now 137 years later, Tom DeLay's aim appears to be the same. Stevens' rush to give the vote to the recently freed slaves failed to take into account the adverse effects of that policy on the welfare of the former slaves themselves. DeLay's plan similarly ignores the welfare of the Texas voters, specifically Blacks and Latinos, who would be affected by his radical redistricting. Stevens' plan backfired, of course, and effectively shut the Republican Party out of local Southern politics for almost a century. Perhaps there could be a lesson here for Texas Republican leaders as well.
Heck, and here, this close to Crawford that media would tow the line and refuse to print opposing viewpoints.
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