The Briefing Room
State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Wingnut on October 14, 2021, 07:36:23 pm
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Despite the objections of Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the Texas House advanced a redistricting plan just like the one the Texas Senate passed last week, shattering the 18th Congressional District she represents and shuffling thousands of mostly Black residents in the Third Ward out of it.
The Houston Democrat made a personal appeal earlier in the day to the Texas House Redistricting Committee, which voted late Wednesday along partisan lines to pass the map that also takes downtown Houston, Texas Southern University and the University of Houston out of Jackson Lee’s district.
“It hurts my heart,” Jackson Lee said of losing landmarks that have been in the 18th District since the 1970s when Barbara Jordan — the first Black woman elected to Congress from Texas — represented it.
Jackson Lee, first elected in the 18th District in 1994, and other opponents of the redistricting plan are running out of chances to change the maps. The plan now goes to the full Texas House for a vote as early as this weekend, where Democrats would need Republican help to stop it from being enacted.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/That-map-hurts-Texas-House-redistricting-16531620.php
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Not to worry...some O'Bastard Judge will fix it for her.
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“It hurts my heart,” Jackson Lee said of losing landmarks that have been in the 18th District since the 1970s when Barbara Jordan — the first Black woman elected to Congress from Texas — represented it.
Poor thing...
So she wants her history preserved but no one else?
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I hope they keep SJL, just to so that we are periodically reminded how stupid democrats can be.
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I hope they keep SJL, just to so that we are periodically reminded how stupid democrats can be.
Well, considering that part of TX will still be stuck with a stupid in Al Green, things will be okay in the cerebrally retarded department.
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I hope they keep SJL, just to so that we are periodically reminded how stupid democrats can be.
Isn't this Maxine Waters' scepter?
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Isn't this Maxine Waters' scepter?
During one of the Mars Rover missions, SJL asked Mission Control if they could show her where the Apollo Astronaunts planted the flag.
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During one of the Mars Rover missions, SJL asked Mission Control if they could show her where the Apollo Astronaunts planted the flag.
We may need a tie-breaker with these two :laugh:
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Screw you Sheila, karma's a beeotch.
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Sheila's quotes are legendary, and all one has to do is pick and choose your own delight.
Here's one of my favorites
(https://www.commdiginews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sheila-jackson-lee-meme.jpg)
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Screw you Sheila, karma's a beeotch.
Nope! No way! Not even if I use your equipment! **nononono*
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We may need a tie-breaker with these two :laugh:
Butt wait, there's more, how can you exclude the Brilliant Hank Johnson from the run off?
Rep. Hank Johnson said he feared that stationing 8,000 Marines on Guam would cause the island to "become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."
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Nope! No way! Not even if I use your equipment! **nononono*
Okay, that one made me laugh. :rolling: