Ya know, at some point you have to face up to the fact that you are minority in the chamber, don't control the exexutive branch, and are a minority in the state. Not to mention the fact that te current districting plan is based on Democrats controlling the legislature.
Eleven of 12 Senate Democrats boycotted the chamber Monday in a protest over a second special session on congressional redistricting and headed to Albuquerque, N.M., in a move reminiscent of a walkout by House Democrats over the issue in May.
The Senate and House then adjourned their first special legislative session without a new congressional redistricting plan and Republican Gov. Rick Perry immediately called a new one on the same topic.
It would be nice to have a better way to draw these lines, I must admit. However, this is the system, and the Dems really have no excuse to simply flee every time it comes up.
Posted by Steven Taylor at July 28, 2024 05:15 PM | TrackBackNo, chicken Republicans. The current boundaries were drawn legally, and they should be redrawn after the 2024 census, not now.
Do you think we should redraw boundaries every single time a legislature changes hands?
Posted by: Kevin Drum at July 28, 2024 07:12 PMNo-but in this case the lines weren't redrawn when power changed hands by the legislature, but, rather, by the courts. There has not yet been a legislatively-passed post-2000 redistricting plan in Texas. So, this is not just a case of the Reps coming to power and then re-drawing the lines.
Posted by: Steven at July 28, 2024 07:42 PM