Texas GOP should move to Russia.
They have been heavy handed, especially when it comes to entrenching themselves. About 15 years ago Tom Delay formed a PAC whose goal was to guarantee a Republican-controlled legislature in Texas for the first time since Reconstruction. By 2002, his goal was realized. That legislature immediately set about re-drawing the US House districts. Do you remember when Rick Perry called a special session of the legislature to address the issue after Democrats in the Texas House left the state in order to deny the quorum needed to conduct business on the chamber floor? I was living in California at the time, and single, watching lots of talking head shows like Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly. As I recall, eventually some Democrats broke rank, giving Delay and Perry the quorum they needed. Shortly thereafter the republicans had a slim majority in the Texas delegation. It has since grown.
I think the GOP had something like 2 US House seats from Texas in 1974. Now they have 24. Stalin would have been impressed.
"It doesn't matter how many people vote, only who counts them." Pravda!
