California, a strongly Democratic state, is about to vote on having a judicial commission decide redistricting for the state. Why? Texas has been a shining example of how things can devolve out of control. The age of the cartoon above, with Bullock and Hobby named, shows how long this has been a problem. Of course our last debacle was because of Mr. Delay.
Here in Texas I would hope that other Republicans and Democrats would join the likes of Senator Wentworth and myself in advocating for redistricting to be performed by an independent commission.
Here is the story by the Dallas Morning News.
1 comments:
Why should an independent council be required? If both parties were really interested in a non-partisan way of defining a district, a program could be written to draw the districts impartially strictly on population distributions regardless of political leanings, reagardless of race, regardless of economic standing.
However, I doubt that many politians would approve such a system as they would have no control in creating safe incumbent districts.
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