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LetMyPeopleVote

(144,934 posts)
1. From Michael Li at Brennan Center
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 01:51 PM
Sep 2021

Michael Li used to have the best website on Texas redistricting issues when he was a patent attorney at Baker Botts. The Brennan Center hired Michael and that website is dormant. I trust Michael on these issues


TexasTowelie

(111,950 posts)
5. The way that District 10 snakes through northern Travos County to connect western Travis County to
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 04:25 PM
Sep 2021

the rest of the district is ridiculous. District 15 that stretches for over 200 miles is also ridiculous. District 35 is also odd.

Districts 6 and 33 in the DFW area are so intertwined with each other that they should be redrawn so that they are more compact. District 24 should also be redrawn to make it more compact.

LeftInTX

(25,138 posts)
6. The worst is CD -23
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 07:43 PM
Sep 2021

It goes all the way from my house in San Antonio to El Paso...

I hated being in that district and now I'm back in it.
They make it "claw around" suburban Bexar County, so they can pick up more red voters.
The pack Castro and Doggett in safe districts. CD 23 is no longer competitive.

I hate it. The reps have been awful.

TexasTowelie

(111,950 posts)
7. The only district that is competitive is District 15 with Gonzalez and I believe that he is now at a
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 08:52 PM
Sep 2021

disadvantage.

LetMyPeopleVote

(144,934 posts)
9. Over 1 million Houston voters change congressional districts under GOP redistricting plan
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 12:49 AM
Sep 2021

I am within few hundred yards of being in Lizzie's district


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