Alabama: Dems rebut Flowers
The Alabama Democratic Party blog has this to say about the Steve Flowers column quoted yesterday: What Steve Flowes failed to point out in his piece is that the district boundaries were drawn in a bi-partisan nature. Legislators of both parties were involved in the process and had to vote on it. Former Republican Attorney General (and now Bush-appointed judge) Bill Pryor defended the boundaries previously, and they were swiftly approved by the Bush Department of Justice. Our districts have been approved every step of the way by Republicans, and this lawsuit is nothing more than an admission by the GOP that they can't take control of the legislature if they play by the rules in place - rules, I might again add, which have been supported by Republican after Republican.
I think it does a disservice to the readers of Flowers' column not to mention this. I am not accusing Flowers of having a political agenda in his columns, but I will say this is not the first time I've found misleading or factually inaccurate information in them. -- Steve Flowers Doesn't Get It - ADP Blog