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Scott Leffler

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Date: Fri Dec 2 2:46 PM, 2005

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WASHINGTON - Justice Department lawyers objected to a Texas redistricting plan orchestrated by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, but top agency officials brushed aside concerns about diluting minority voting strength and approved the plan anyway, according to an agency memo released Friday. The plan, designed to boost election chances of Republican candidates for the U.S. House, was approved by the Justice Department and the new districts were used in the 2002 elections. story link An independent commission should draw the lines for elections in the House as well as state races (assembly/state senate/etc). But ... how do you choose the commissioners? __________________ - Scott Leffler - Host and Moderator

Jim Hufnagel

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Date: Fri Dec 2 3:33 PM, 2005

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I'm not sure how they could accurately draw the districts in Texas anyway, what with the twisters blowing the mobile homes around all the time the population in a given place must change constantly . -- Edited by Jim Hufnagel at 15:34, 2005-12-02 __________________ "If you promise not to pray in my schools, I promise not to think in your church"

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