Rick Perry to split Austin into five congressional districts to defeat Lloyd Doggett

[somone]

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/plan-splits-travis-among-5-u-s-house-1510688.html

Plan splits Travis among 5 U.S. House districts

As Gov. Rick Perry declared Tuesday that lawmakers should redraw congressional districts during their newly begun special session, legislative leaders proposed a map that would effectively split Travis County into five districts and target U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett for defeat.

Three members of Congress now represent the county, but the map unveiled by the chairmen of the redistricting committees in the state House and Senate put almost all of Travis County in five districts.

The proposal appears designed to split heavily Democratic Travis County among four Republican congressmen and a Democrat from San Antonio.

The map "is contemptuous of the people who live in Travis County," said state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin...

[FLAprogressive]

1. And what gets me is that racial equality groups regularly *defend* GOP gerrymandering because it

gets them minority-majority districts. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[aquart]

2. Of course, this might not be the best year to do that.

[pa28]

3. Incredible. This is on top of Tom DeLay's slice and dice job ten years ago.

Look at the Texas 21st in Austin or the 29th in Houston. It's pure arrogance to gerrymander those areas even further but Republicans always seem to be able to get away with these abuses. That's just what Republicans do so it's OK right?

[Sonoman]

4. Didn't Little Man lose Travis County?

Fuck ricky.

Sonoman

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Will the new districts be constitutional, that is, they won't gerrymander?