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BlueCollar

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6. State re-districting guarantees Republican wins
Thu Nov 19, 2015, 03:31 PM
Nov 2015

Last edited Thu Nov 19, 2015, 04:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Even if one could register every uncommitted voter as a democrat and get every democrat to vote, it is my opinion that the deck is stacked as a result of the redistricting that took place after the last census.
I testified against the plan when the roadshow came through town but it was obvious that the fix was in. Give the Dems the valley and Austin. Make Dallas look purple but make damn sure Fort Worth, Waco, Houston, Wichita Falls, Abilene etc stay blood red.

Then pass voter ID laws to ensure that you make it harder to vote if you are elderly, Hispanic, African-American, or any other non-white male category.

Throw together a group of "Texas Democrats" to run the show that behave like California Republicans and you have it all in place.

Finally, cut education spending at the K -12 level to ensure that the next generation of Texas voters are even more ignorant than the present generation of voters in order to perpetuate the mediocrity.

And. I haven't even started on electronic voting machine rigging.

The fact is the political process in Texas does not belong to the people, it belongs to the groups I mentioned in my earlier post.

With the exception of Wendy Davis we haven't had a real democrat run for any statewide office since Anne Richards.

There is a reason the gallery in the Capitol building in Austin is referred to as the "Owners' Boxes"

We are well represented in Texas.

A$$&€£=$ like Patton, Cruz, Corny, Goehmert, Abbot, and Patrick do in fact represent Texas very well.

Note please that I said they represent Texas very well. I didn't say they represented Texans very well.

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