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Texas Republicans have come up with a congressional redistricting plan. The plan would, in the loaded words of the Washington Post, “siphon[] off thousands of [Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s] Black constituents and potentially forc[e] her into a primary election against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green.”

This is a wonderful development. Jackson Lee, who once compared the Tea Party to the KKK, has no redeeming quality I’ve ever detected.

Green seems like a good guy (once, after a congressional hearing, he invited a friend of mine with whose testimony he disagreed to lunch). However, his over-the-top demands that Donald Trump be impeached before Trump had done anything even arguably impeachable (that is, before the Ukraine-Joe/Hunter Biden business) make him a good candidate for forced retirement.

Naturally, Jackson Lee and Green are unhappy about the proposed congressional map. And naturally, they are playing the race. They call new districting lines “an act of racial discrimination.”

But neither member of Congress has a God-given right to represent a safe district. Neither has a God-given right not to have to compete for White votes.

read more here: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/texas-poised-to-redistrict-jackson-lee-or-green-out-of-congress.php?utm_source=63red.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=63red

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  • Sometimes that's the only way to get these people out of power.....but be careful what you end up with  in return!

    We tried for years to get rid of Dennis Kuscinich, but his ties were so strong it never worked. So, finally got it done by redistricting, only to end up with a card holding communist that is now impossible to get rid of.

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