A Footnote To The Virginia Senate Story
TPM Editors Blog
DAVID KURTZ JANUARY 21, 2013, 7:05 PM
As mentioned earlier, seizing on the absence of a Democratic senator who happens to be a veteran of the civil rights movement and was in Washington, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, for the second inauguration of the countrys first black president, Republicans in the evenly split Virginia state Senate pushed through a surprise mid-decade redistricting plan to try to gain decisive control of the body in the next election.
Were not done yet.
At the end of this wild day, the Senate adjourned in memory or (sic) General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson, according to the minutes of the session. Jan. 21 is the Confederate generals birthday.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/01/a_footnote_to_the_virginia_senate_story.php?ref=fpblg
Link to article about the redistricting plan passed today:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/republicans-dirty-trick-inauguration.php?ref=fpnewsfeed