Texas re-redistricting now signed
KXAN-TV in Austin reports Gov. Perry signed the re-redistricting bill late Monday. AP reports,
The Democrats lost their six-month legislative battle to stop the redrawing of congressional district lines when the Texas House and Senate approved a map over the weekend that will likely give Republicans a solid majority in the state's 32-member delegation.But the Democrats aren't finished just yet.
They plan to file another lawsuit in hopes of preventing the GOP congressional map from taking effect for the 2004 election. They contend the Republican plan disenfranchises minority and rural voters all over the state.
By splitting Webb County, where Laredo is located, thus cutting from one district tens of thousands of South Texans living along the Mexico border, the Republicans have turned a previously Hispanic district into a non-minority district, Democrats say.
Burnt Orange at Political State Report has a roundup of the stories reporting on the Senate passage of the bill.