It’s sad that forty-six years after the Voting Rights Act, Texas still can’t draw a congressional district map that doesn’t discriminate against minorities.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Ron Paul told me that we don’t need this legislation because the free market.
After reading the comments at that link, I said to myself evolution takes a long time, and mutations tend to slow the progress.
The universe has a lot more time than we do, but the work goes on. That’s why we’re here.
Here in Dayton, Ohio, the local branch of the NAACP isvgoing after the new congressional map, which takes gerrymandering to a high art form. Boehner’s district, which was a section south of Dayton, now magically will extend right up the middle of the city, splitting the district with a large minority population.
The NAACP is considering taking legal action to fight the referendum of the bill that draws the new lines.
It’s disgusting. I am sick to death of their attack on voters rights.