Texas Democrats Flee to Heavily Gerrymandered Illinois to Protest Gerrymandering

[HoHound]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...theoretically/



silly Democrats

[TheDaliLama]

If it wasn’t for gerrymandering the Democrats wouldn’t exist

[Salty Again]

Originally Posted by HoHound

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...theoretically/



silly Democrats

... Where better for them to flee to?? ...

##### Salty

[ICU 812]

Yeah . . .everyone does it. Nobody should.

My thought on this is to make conventional districts conform to blocks of contiguous POSTL ZIP CODE regions! There would have to be tweaks to ensure that voters actually lived there and so on, but that is the basic idea.

[Tiny]

No posts from Democrats in this thread yet, which shows the "liberal lads" on the board are a brighter group than Democratic politicians and media pundits in general. They're wisely not jumping into this. The Democrats out gerrymandered the Republicans for at least 60 years, up until 2012, and even if Texas picks up 5 seats through redistricting mid cycle, its allocation of representatives will still be fairer than blue states like Maryland, New Mexico and Illinois. Trump got 46% of the New Mexico vote and the state still doesn't have a Republican in the House! That's racist, discrimination against the rednecks who populate the southern and eastern parts of the state.

[Jacky S]

Several Governors of ultra Blue States are saying they will do their own GerryMandering.

The only catch to that is in most of these blue States, there is nothing left to Gerrymander.

Take Massachusetts. They are allowed 9 US House members. Guess how many are Republicans.

Zero.

[Unique_Carpenter]

[Hdtown]

I say all the power to them and screw the little man Abbott.

[Budman]

The left is just mad that the right is finally playing the game that they have played for years. It's kinda fun to see them bitch and moan about how unfair this is.

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by Budman

The left is just mad that the right is finally playing the game that they have played for years. It's kinda fun to see them bitch and moan about how unfair this is.

You obviously don’t remember the last time Democrats fled the state to protest mid decades redistricting back in 2003. It was a shitty thing to do back then and it’s a shitty thing to do now. Austin was cracked into multiple districts stretching hundreds of miles just to dilute the most democratic region in the state.

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

You obviously don’t remember the last time Democrats fled the state to protest mid decades redistricting back in 2003. It was a shitty thing to do back then and it’s a shitty thing to do now. Austin was cracked into multiple districts stretching hundreds of miles just to dilute the most democratic region in the state.

Ugly jealousy.

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

If it wasn’t for gerrymandering the Democrats wouldn’t exist

If it wasn't for slavery, America wouldn't exist. I know the right just loves to deliberately forget.

[HoHound]

The slave owners and the KKK were democrats. Yall were the bad guys then. You're the bad guys now.

[ICU 812]

Now I hear talk of arresting the Texas lawmakers who left. Another thing I am hearing is that the Texas constitution provides for their removal as elected representatives if they are deemed too have "abandoned the state."

It is not clear to me that either of those things are true.

Anybody really know?

[ICU 812]

Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

If it wasn't for slavery, America wouldn't exist. I know the right just loves to deliberately forget.

WTF!???



Explain . . .plese explain that.