How the GOP Hijacked Texas

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By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-gop-hijacked-texas.html

Millions of good people in Texas are just as appalled by the rise of the GOP in that once great state as are Democrats/progressives/liberals in any other part of the country. Epithets targeting Texas are misplaced.

Texas is NOT your enemy.

We have seen the 'enemy' and it's the GOP! The GOP knows full-well what happened in Texas and the role played by George H.W. Bush in bringing it all about.

The demonization of Texas plays into GOP hands. It's bunkum. For some 100 years --from Gov Richard Coke, January 15, 1874 to Dolph Briscoe, January 16, 1973 --Texas was a Democratic/Progressive state. The conversion to 'red' began with the arrival of the Bush crime and kooky cult clan of crooked, lying Republicans. The way was paved by Tom DeLay who gerrymandered the state creating for the GOP a party machine, a dependable, solid 'base' from which it could spread its crack pot, evil lies and bile. Republicans say the plan did not dilute minority votes. But a 73-page memo, dated Dec. 12, 2003, was provided to The Washington Post by a person who claims otherwise.

Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.

--Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal. Dan Eggen, Washington Post Staff Writer"

Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Texas and other states with a history of discriminatory elections are required to submit changes in their voting systems or election maps for approval by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

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[center]Gerrymandering in Action[/center]

[Dawson Leery]

1. Where ever the Bush crime family goes, s**t follows.

[HooptieWagon]

2. OT...Pete Best or Stu Sutcliff?

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3. I Am Nowhere Man

but I am also the eggman, and I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

I am also the Taxman, maybe a Paperback Writer.

A Day In The Life is what I am.

[NoPasaran]

4. Richard Coke may have been a Democrat, but there was nothing progresive about him

He was a delegate to the Texas Secession Convention and an officer in the Confederate Army. After the war he was elected to the Texas Supreme Court but was fired by the military governor, Phil Sheridan, for impeding Reconstruction. Appealing to the most reactionary, racist elements in society he was elected Governor in 1873 and took office the following year even though the court had ruled his election invalid. His accession to office marked the end of Reconstruction and the rise of a racist, one party state that endured to modern times.

[xtraxritical]

5. I think the GOP took Texas thru gerrymandering and patronage.

The only good jobs in Texas are patronage jobs these days.