State's new map for District 23 draws fire

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Houston Chronicle 7/22
State's new map for District 23 draws fire
However, a prominent Texas Republican consultant also blasted the state's proposal.

"I'm disappointed that the Republicans are using this as a cocktail party joke opportunity rather than to submit real evidence before real judges who are going to determine the future of our state," GOP consultant Royal Masset said. "The Republican plan makes no sense. It's not responsive to anything. It's like a political statement."

Democrats wrote that the state's proposal should be called, "The Roadrunner That Ate Travis County," referring to the new 23rd District drawn in the Texas Hill Country for Bonilla.

"The bird's tail is Kerr County; its claws grip northern Bexar; and you already know what happens to Travis," Democrats wrote.

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Trying to remove Doggett from Austin undermines the Republican argument for drawing fair districts, Masset said.

"All we did is draw a goofy map laughing at Lloyd Doggett," the Republican consultant said. "I don't know what they are accomplishing by this idiocy. There's no way in God's creation that the judges are going to approve a Republican map that doesn't have any Democratic congressmen in Travis County.

I don't know who this Masset is, but at least he's a republican with a brain. Please let the judges see the "cocktail party joke opportunity" that he sees.

Go LULAC and MALDEF!

Sonia