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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer
No Dude! No way in hell! Both sides are not at fault. The Democrats in the Texas legislature are a disgrace to Texas and a disgrace to representative government as a whole. They were elected to represent the people of Texas - not the people of Ardmore or the people of Albuquerque - They are just flat gutless worms. They need to go back and cast their votes and let the chips fall where they fall.
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Would you be saying the same thing if it was democrats trying to restructure the boundaries to help ensure that they kept a majority in the state legislature?
I don't think its gutless to do the only thing you can to oppose a bill that is trying to subvert democracy by altering electoral boundaries to favour one party. I think its gutless of the republicans to be making the changes in the first place since that says that they can't rely on winning elections without first skewing the playing field in their favour as much as possible.
Seriously, all the huffing and puffing about the indignity of this is along partisan lines rather than any real higher moral/ethical/whatever standard that people should be held to.