Fast-growing and increasingly diverse Texas, where no Democrat has won statewide since 1994, is a good example of the depressing effect of one-party domination. Last year, voter registration reached a record, but turnout fell. It was 2nd lowest in the country. (1/2)
As Rodney Ellis, a former state senator and current Harris County commissioner, once told me: “Texas is not a red state. It’s a blue state that doesn’t vote.” (2/2)
Agree with all u say in your first Sunday column I grew up just a few miles from the original Gerrymander district in MA As you say TX is trying to squeeze out 5 seats "because they can" But a partisan Supreme Court in Rucho is the worst actor As letters to Post said, it is a constitutional q
Supreme Court pretended to float above political questions but imo only undermined its own authority Pritzker is right to say in effect that partisanship on behalf of our democratic republic requires extraordinary responses
And now, Texas Republican representatives are determined to make sure that, even if Democrats DO vote, their vote won't matter.
"Because we can."