The Texas Nexus - Corruption, Partisans & Racial Gerrymandering

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Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay (R-TX), is currently under indictment for allegedly pumping illegal, corporate donations, laundered by his political action committee, into Republican state legislative races in 2002. The goal of the donations was to gain enough influence through contributions to Texas state legislators to compel them to redraw the original, court-ordered, redistricting plan.

Naive American voters still believe that they select their Congressional representatives. Texans are under no such illusion after the bitter redistricting battle that took place there. Partisan and racial gerrymandering has created a situation in Texas and across the nation, where very few U.S. Congressional seats are competitive today -- in effect allowing Congressmen to choose their voters.

Tom DeLay led the way for Republican Congressmen in Texas to pick their voters. The untold story of DeLay’s belligerent power grab in Texas redistricting involves partisan political domination, intrigue, corruption and perhaps most significantly -- minority disenfranchisement.

BY KARYN STRICKLER
Copyright, Karyn Strickler, currently working to elect her husband Allan Lichtman to the U.S. Senate.
http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1409

[Why Syzygy]

1. That is the absolute truth ...

allow THEM to select their voters. That's not "public office", folks. That's thievery. Something Tom et al know a lot about.