Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman Rebecca Acuña released the following statement in response to the San Antonio court’s interim maps:
“We appreciate the court’s efforts, but their maps are far from accurate representation. These maps may be slightly better than those passed by a radical legislature but they still grossly misrepresent the demographics of our state.
“89% of the growth that led to four new congressional districts in Texas was from minorities. We are almost exclusively the reason the state got four new congressonal districts, but these maps gave us just one additional voice in Congress.
“Specifically, The Texas Democratic Party will continue to support our allies who are fighting to ensure that all communities are accurately represented.”
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund released a statement today noting that the new congressional and state electoral maps in Texas do not do enough to address Latino growth in that state. According to the release: The interim congressional and Texas State House maps…
By Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee, ProPublica How does Texas discriminate against minority voters? Federal judges counted the ways. Last Tuesday, a panel of federal court judges ruled that new district maps drawn by Texas' Republican-controlled legislature weakened the influence of Latino voters and in some cases evinced "discriminatory intent"…
*This is happening this week in a courtroom in San Antonio, TX. It's a nuanced lawsuit that attempts to redefine the legal parameters of gerrymandering. That's right, in Texas gerrymandering is OK, if drawn along partisan lines. The nuance is that drawing a majority GOP district dilutes the power of…
More than three in 10 Latino families in the United States caring for children under the age of 5 say they support the mass deportations promoted by President Donald Trump, […]
