Texas Senate opens redistricting debate with proposed map one senator labels "intentional discrimina

[LeftInTX]

Texas Senate opens redistricting debate with proposed map one senator labels “intentional discrimination”

The first draft of the Senate map was authored by a Republican who chairs the Senate redistricting committee. It immediately drew fire from a Democratic member who said her district was being redrawn to dilute voting power of people of color.

The Texas Senate kicked off the decennial redistricting process on Saturday, releasing the first draft of its own members’ district maps which shore up the strength of the Republican majority.

On Monday, the Texas Legislature meets for a 30-day special session dedicated to redrawing political maps based on the latest census data, which showed people of color fueled 95% of Texas’ population growth over the past decade.

The Legislature is tasked with setting new boundaries for House and Senate districts in addition to redrawing new district maps for the state’s congressional seats and for the State Board of Education. Republicans hold majorities in both chambers and will have every advantage as they use the process to position their party for the next decade as the state population becomes younger and more diverse.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/18/texas-senate-redistricting-map/

[msongs]

1. US senate democrats could put the brakes on this sort of thing....could if they wanted to that is nt

[rickyhall]

2. Damn right. When you gonna defend our right to vote? We're waiting, senators.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. Senator Beverly Powell is my State Senator

This map will greatly impact her re-election.

SD10 was well represented by Wendy Davis for several years before she ran for governor. Her replacement was a Total Tea Party crazy; we managed to vote her out and elect Senator Powell. She has done a great job and should not have difficulty in re-election using the current map

Now we really have to fight to re-elect her with this map change.

Just another reason I think every Democrat who did not vote in 2020 or only voted the top of the ballot deserves to be smacked up side of the head.

If folks had voted the whold downballot, we might have knocked off a few more Republican state representatives. Things would have been so different