I think Jed and I live in different states, even if we're both in Texas. He's up in Dallas, I'm in Houston. My understanding is that we did go through redistricting 2 years ago. Another thing I understand is that Tom DeLay is bullying his Republican brothers and sisters into voting his way. There is Republican dissent regarding the redistricting but none have opted to make such a public stand against it.
The Houston Chronicle published the redistricting map and I thought it looked totally gerrymandered. The districts were squiggling all over the place. Then I realized I was looking at the current districts. The proposed map looks 10 times worse. A popular Dem from an Austin district would have his district cut out by making his district a part of Katy, Texas which is a suburb of Houston. I know Houston is big but Katy is about 140 miles away from Austin. Another new district would snake down from Austin all the way south to the Mexican border. Nobody can make me believe that makes sense. Not only would it be impossible to represent the many different types of people living in such a vastly different area, but it would be difficult for the representative to even visit his whole area.

GUEST says "They affected an action intended to 'result in a political outcome.'" Aren't we all guilty of that when we vote???

From what I can gather, the Dems have been working up in Ardmore, not playing golf so hopefully, now that the re-districting vote won't happen, they can get back to the real business of the state and will have gained some headway by being together this week.

There was a demonstration in Houston yesterday in support of the Dems. My favorite sign said, "Save our Nation without DeLay." Middle America, not just the fanatics on either side need to start paying attention to what is going on in this country and to speak with their votes.

Let's hope something can save our nation...
Emily