I would like to know why they walked out of the texas legislature over the proposed redistricting? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
2007-03-05 12:53:56 · 6 answers · asked by jacobwilliams300 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
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2007-03-05 12:56:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution says you redistrict once every ten years, after a census. That redistricting was carried out in Texas and everywhere else after the 2000 census in accordance with the Constitution. Tom Delay, the indicted former speaker of the house, headed a Republican committee that won control of the Texas legislature and wanted to redistrict Texas again, to wipe out the Democratic representatives and replace them with puppets for the Republican oil industry and polluters. Rather than allow the plan to go thru, the Democrats left, eliminating a quorum in the legislature and making conduct of business--the criminal redistricting scam--legally impossible. The Supreme Court, even tho it is filled with Republican flunkies and stooges, threw out many of the Delay committee's manufactured districts. The whole episode shows, along with torture and holding people without either trial or right of bail or even charges being levied against them, the utter contempt the oil industry and its puppets in the Republican party have for the Constitution of the United States.
2007-03-05 21:00:12 · answer #2 · answered by jxt299 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The redistricting was going to give the Republicans a much bigger majority in the Texas legislature than they already had. The Democrats thought that it had amounted to gerrymandering, so they left the state so that the legislature wouldn't have enough members to call a quorum to vote on the issue. Needless to say, the redistricting passed anyway.
2007-03-05 20:57:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Jerry-mandering that the republicans did, set up a virtual can't lose an election situation for the republicans.
With some of the most outlandishly shaped districts ever encountered.
2007-03-05 21:00:30 · answer #4 · answered by Vernon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Republicans ( In power at the time ) Redrew the lines to include more Republicans in certain districts, thus hedging the bet a Republican would be elected in that district, leaving Democrats in a minority in EVERY DISTRICT!
2007-03-05 21:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They walked out so a quorum was no longer present. Without a quorum no votes could be taken.
2007-03-05 20:57:20 · answer #6 · answered by khorat k 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋