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Originally posted by MrSmashy
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.
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Yeah! I'd be saying the exact same things since this is exactly what the Democrats have done in Texas for the past 100 years - They had it so loaded in their favor that Texas was basically a one party state until Eisenhower carried Texas. What they are attempting now is to hang onto a power base that they've lost. Because of population shifts Texas needs to be reapportioned - not to favor a party but fairly.
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