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In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps (www.democracydocket.com)

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Lawyers for the state of Texas spent nine days in a recently concluded federal hearing insisting that the state didn’t discriminate against Black and brown voters when it drew its new gerrymandered congressional map this summer.

But they fought tooth and nail during the hearing to keep as little information as possible from coming out about the mapmaking process.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah what the other guys missing is it's not just a problem of gerrymandering it's a problem of the fact that the Texas democratic party is the most incompetent State party I've ever seen in my life. They barely even put up a fight at times. I mean you should see some of the nothings they've run for State office in the past 30 years. In 2006 they had a four-way race, the Republican only won 39% of the vote. Golden opportunity. They wasted it on Chris Bell. A man so boring I'm not even sure if I got his name right and I'm shocked I remembered him at all. Couple rounds later they nominated a sheriff that nobody had heard of and even less people voted for. That says nothing of their attempts at Senate seats. Hopefully they got a hot one right now though in Talarico, as long as the party doesn't put their thumb on the scales and put up Allred again for another listless loss.

Point being that while gerrymandering is certainly significant it is absolutely not the only factor and anyone who thinks otherwise is destined to fail. Because the big problem in Texas is the Texas DNC is so apathetic and pathetic that they almost never actually get voters to turn out. They could, they could embrace energy and enthusiasm. They don't though.