Reply #5: A third special session will have to be called

[Career Prole]

sometime because the Legislature has still not gotten around to its primary job, which was supposed to be figuring out how it will structure financing for public schools before Delay hijacked it. Last I heard, that special session is likely to be delayed until April, after the March primaries. If Gov. Goodhair's going to call another special session on redistricting, he'd better do it damn quick because the filing date for U.S. House seats is Dec. 3 and the U.S. Justice Department has to approve any redistricting plan 60 days before that, which would be Oct. 6. I've heard some scuttlebutt that Perry may put redistricting on the docket whenever the session on public school financing is called and Democrats couldn't afford to skip out, but it seems that would be way too late to affect next year's elections. So this might be the end of it for now, if not for good. However, I wouldn't put anything past these bastids, including postponing the date of the primaries -- and thus the filing date and Justice Department approval date -- if they can figure out how to get away with it.