What you said is so true. Now, please would someone, with a brain, please run against this foolish _itch.
Now, please would someone, with a brain, please run against this foolish _itch.
This district was once represented by George Herbert Walker Bush. When he ran against Lloyd Bentsen for U.S. Senator in, um, I want to say 1976, the seat went to the Dims.
Enter Dallas-area congressman Martin Frost, a shellbacked liberal drone, and the gerrymander of 1981.
The district was redesigned for Barbara Jordan, to be a "safe seat". It's about 55% black, which is overkill as far as "controlling" the Member of Congress from that seat. (More background on that if wanted -- it's a poli-sci thing: 25% bloc vote in a district is a dead lock.)
Example of the effect: the best Republican to contest the seat, in 1992, Ed Blum, was an energetic, engaged, knowledgeable bond salesman at an underwriting firm who knew a few things about government. He engaged former Congressman Craig Washington, Jackson Lee's predecessor, in a debate. Washington, in a seldom-equalled public display of contempt for the office, the process, and us white voters, deliberately smokestacked, fumbling every question, barely answering others, conceding everything Blum had to say -- then won the election in a 75%/25% walkover that barely scratched the surface. Get the picture? We are non-citizens, who are not black.