Little Surprise at Redistricting Document From Democrats

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/politics/03react.html


December 3, 2005
Little Surprise at Redistricting Document From Democrats Who Lost 2004 Race
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

HOUSTON, Dec. 2 - It was too late for him, "but it's never too late to have the truth come out," said Charles W. Stenholm, the former Democratic representative from West Texas whose 26-year career in the House fell to the Republican Congressional redistricting of 2003.

Reaction split mostly along party lines in Texas on Friday to the news that Justice Department experts had found the redistricting plan violated minority voting rights, but were overruled by senior officials.

Ousted Texas Democrats and the N.A.A.C.P. reacted angrily but without great surprise to publication by The Washington Post of a long-secret 73-page memorandum laying out the unanimous objections of six Justice Department lawyers and two analysts to the redistricting.

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1. He was my rep before he got redistricted out-very good to farmers