Because of gerrymandering or the partisan lean of the areas they represent, many House members represent districts where the opposing party has practically no chance of flipping their seats.
When the GOP Texas Senate on Monday unveiled its proposed new district maps for Texas’ seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, the likely impact on greater Houston’s slate of congressmen and women was pretty clear: Local red districts would get redder and blue districts would get bluer under the new plan. U.S. Rep Lizzie Fletcher (D-Houston)’s district was also made more solidly Democratic, but in a way that some expect could lead to a tougher March primary for the moderate Democrat. Fletcher’s old 2020 Republican foe Wesley Hunt was gifted one of the two new U.S. House seats granted to Texas based on the state’s population growth, and despite the fact that most of that growth came from Hispanic Texans, neither of the two new proposed congressional districts would be majority Hispanic.
headlines across the country as mostly gop controlled legislatures begin the first legislatures begin the first redistricting since 1960s that does not require approval from the justice department. in houston, texas, black and brown communities are carved up in one case putting powerful house democrats al green and sheila jackson lee now in the same district. it s a blight on lyndon baines johns and barbara jordan who were able to have a seat that all viewed as crucial when barbara went as the first african-american to go to the deep south, go from the deep south, to the united states congress. my mentor endorsed me when i ran and to see this district that had been together for 50 years
time, they must reauthorize the voting rights act, they must ensure the democracy we have is representative of all the communities, particularly african-americans who fought so hard for so long to ensure equity and opportunity for all citizens and to take those two districts, those very effective members of congress and pit them against one another is a power play we cannot stand by and watch. putting those two as you describe them against one another and realistically removing one from congress, it just seems wrong, doesn t it? it is a pour grab, right. sheila jackson lee is one of the most visible members of congress across any community, but particularly for her district and for african-americans. al green, a former state judge, is an intellect in congress. we have to protect those who actually can think because what we re looking at from far too many republicans are nonsensical arguments based on conspiracy