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It is bad enough that they cheat, but to add in a racist twist like this is DEPLORABLE !
Minorities made up 95% of Texas population gains. Yet now they have less power in deciding the outcome of elections through voting.
New Texas Republican map carves Jackson Lee district and cuts off Black constituents
By Colby Itkowitz
Yesterday at 8:00 p.m. EDT
A new Texas congressional map shreds the Houston-based legislative district of Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, siphoning off thousands of her Black constituents and potentially forcing her into a primary against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green (D).
Critics of the new plan say it’s a racial gerrymander intended to weaken Black voices in Congress, even as it protects other incumbents.
Jackson Lee, 71, is the second-longest-serving member in the Texas delegation, having represented the state’s 18th District for nearly three decades. Since it was won by Barbara Jordan in 1972, the first Black woman to represent the state, the boundaries have largely remained the same.
But now, Texas Republicans in charge of redistricting have advanced a map that would remove downtown Houston, with Jackson Lee’s main district office, two universities and the predominantly Black Third Ward neighborhood, long considered the center of Black life in Houston, from the 18th District.
Minorities made up 95% of Texas population gains. Yet now they have less power in deciding the outcome of elections through voting.
New Texas Republican map carves Jackson Lee district and cuts off Black constituents
By Colby Itkowitz
Yesterday at 8:00 p.m. EDT
A new Texas congressional map shreds the Houston-based legislative district of Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, siphoning off thousands of her Black constituents and potentially forcing her into a primary against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green (D).
Critics of the new plan say it’s a racial gerrymander intended to weaken Black voices in Congress, even as it protects other incumbents.
Jackson Lee, 71, is the second-longest-serving member in the Texas delegation, having represented the state’s 18th District for nearly three decades. Since it was won by Barbara Jordan in 1972, the first Black woman to represent the state, the boundaries have largely remained the same.
But now, Texas Republicans in charge of redistricting have advanced a map that would remove downtown Houston, with Jackson Lee’s main district office, two universities and the predominantly Black Third Ward neighborhood, long considered the center of Black life in Houston, from the 18th District.