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1 hour ago, Gap03 said:

TX-10 and -11 are fucking ridiculous.  Fuck these pieces of shit.

That whole area from northern Travis County up to Georgetown is fucked on the proposed map.

Say you get in your car from North Austin and head up to Ikea. You start out in TX-37, drive a couple of miles through TX-10, then a couple more in TX-11, maybe pass one Exit in TX-17, and you finally reach your destination, only a few miles away in TX-31.

Communities of interest, eh?

  • Western Travis/Round Rock is paired up with Livingston in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
  • Round Rock/Pflugerville hangs with Midland/Odessa.
  • Cedar Park/Round Rock goes along with Corsicana.

Yeah, buddy.

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

@Ag with kids thinks this is fine because Texas votes 56% R in presidential elections 

If Texas moves forward with this plan, and then CA does the same thing in the reverse, there will be screams from the Texas GOP MAGA types about how Newsom is breaking the law.

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Posted
3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Most kickass aggy I've ever seen. Fuck these corrupt assholes running this state. 

 

He’s gonna lose his aggy ring talking truth to power like that!

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Posted
1 hour ago, Horn Dog said:

He’s gonna lose his aggy ring talking truth to power like that!

The glasses are a Clark Kent-type giveaway. He’s got a burnt orange superhero suit under that shirt.

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Posted
7 hours ago, bolverk said:

That whole area from northern Travis County up to Georgetown is fucked on the proposed map.

Say you get in your car from North Austin and head up to Ikea. You start out in TX-37, drive a couple of miles through TX-10, then a couple more in TX-11, maybe pass one Exit in TX-17, and you finally reach your destination, only a few miles away in TX-31.

Communities of interest, eh?

  • Western Travis/Round Rock is paired up with Livingston in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
  • Round Rock/Pflugerville hangs with Midland/Odessa.
  • Cedar Park/Round Rock goes along with Corsicana.

Yeah, buddy.

 

 

id be curious to see the R/D splits. they're assuming all R's will stay R, or factoring in losing a certain % ?

doubtful those numbers would ever be public 

Posted (edited)
18 hours ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

I know this is a stupid question but how is mid-decade redistricting based on nothing whatsoever even legal? 

Gov. Hot Wheels:

a man is smoking a cigarette in a dark room and saying `` i will make it legal '' .

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Posted
28 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

In case anyone is wondering if their shit changed

 

https://dvr.capitol.texas.gov/Congress/0/PLANC2308

 

Northern Travis and southern Williamson counties, this is who your future Congress critters will actually represent. Only the core of Austin will really have its voice heard. Everyone else in the area will be ignored.

One voice against five others. The extreme nature of this gerrymander truly is taxation without representation.

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Posted
13 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Districts should have to be quadrilaterals with an exception granted for state boundaries.  
 

Say no to squiggly lines. 

one thing is for sure, they shouldn't be drawn by partisans. like a lot of things in this country, the lines should be drawn by a fair and independent body whose only goal is equitable distribution of voters per seat. we certainly be where are today if such a thing had happened before now

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Big City Texas is being disenfranchised by Rural Texas.

DFW: 2-3 voices vs. 8-9

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Houston: 2-3 vs. 7-8

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San Antonio: 1 vs. 4

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Posted

Done in isolation this could backfire in a big way during a blue wave year. But next they'll purge a shitload of blue voters and reduce voting machines and locations in blue areas to prevent that from happening.

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Posted (edited)
18 minutes ago, mchookem said:

jfc. this is so bad. wow.

I think they did this as a sick joke, but downtown Austin and the Capitol Complex are included in TX-10, the same district that will include College Station.

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Posted
13 minutes ago, mchookem said:

jfc. this is so bad. wow.

Kind of makes me think of how the Founding Fathers would respond to this.  Sounds a bit like what Brisket suggested a while back, the way of the gun seems to be the only solution since the way of peace, voting and compromise is being eliminated.  

Posted
2 hours ago, bolverk said:

 

Northern Travis and southern Williamson counties, this is who your future Congress critters will actually represent. Only the core of Austin will really have its voice heard. Everyone else in the area will be ignored.

One voice against five others. The extreme nature of this gerrymander truly is taxation without representation.

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I guess if there's a bright side for me, I'll no longer be represented by the corpse of John Carter. Let me see who represents TX17....Ah, shit. 

Posted
2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I guess if there's a bright side for me, I'll no longer be represented by the corpse of John Carter. Let me see who represents TX17....Ah, shit. 

Cedar Park/Leander won't even be an afterthought for dear ol' Pete.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Cedar Park/Leander won't even be an afterthought for dear ol' Pete.

Looking at it again, I'll have to wait and see a more granular map. I'm in that area north of 1431 and East of 734 (Parmer/Ronald Reagan). I'm in the Georgetown ETJ, and it's going to depend on what road forms that eastern boundary. I might still be in 31 by a matter of feet. 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Looking at it again, I'll have to wait and see a more granular map. I'm in that area north of 1431 and East of 734 (Parmer/Ronald Reagan). I'm in the Georgetown ETJ, and it's going to depend on what road forms that eastern boundary. I might still be in 31 by a matter of feet. 

 

It's an interactive map, so you can zoom in to find your place: https://dvr.capitol.texas.gov/Congress/0/PLANC2308

Posted
8 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Those maps are pretty insane, holy shit I haven't really looked at this

Yeah, and I'd wager 95% of adults in Texas will have no idea that it changed.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Those maps are pretty insane, holy shit I haven't really looked at this

 

Gerrymandering is just another form of disenfranchising voters. It's a one-two punch.

I'm sure you probably know a bunch of folks who don't bother to vote because they think know their votes won't matter. And they're right if they live in a part of a city that's appended to a largely rural district. So, people get tired and turned off from voting and having to wait in long lines, while the rural folks can just pop in and vote in a matter of a couple of minutes.

All of this then affects statewide and national elections, and that's partially why Texas has such a shitty voter turnout rate that's kept the state red the last 30 years.

Posted
13 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

id be curious to see the R/D splits. they're assuming all R's will stay R, or factoring in losing a certain % ?

doubtful those numbers would ever be public 

Word is they are assuming 2024 voting patterns to get to a +5 R pickup.

 

 



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