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Thorfinn · 05-13-2003, 12:08 AM

I don't know. Bipartisan is not the way I would have described the situation in the mid '80s when I was a Texas resident. Democrats gerrymandered every chance they got, and even tried to ramrod it through a couple times when they were not supposed to. Texas politics are... different...

IIRC, when a few of the more cantankerous Repubs got uppity about it, their seats were declared abandoned, and the seat went vacant. The county could schedule a special election to fill it, or they went without representation until their next election. Either way, the Democrats had one less opposition vote to whatever was on their agenda. I, for one, would like to see all 59 seats declared abandoned, giving them a taste of their own medicine, but I doubt even Texas Republicans have the balls to do it...

05-13-2003, 12:08 AM	#2
Thorfinn Zhentarim Guard Join Date: February 24, 2003 Location: Indiana Age: 61 Posts: 358	I don't know. Bipartisan is not the way I would have described the situation in the mid '80s when I was a Texas resident. Democrats gerrymandered every chance they got, and even tried to ramrod it through a couple times when they were not supposed to. Texas politics are... different... IIRC, when a few of the more cantankerous Repubs got uppity about it, their seats were declared abandoned, and the seat went vacant. The county could schedule a special election to fill it, or they went without representation until their next election. Either way, the Democrats had one less opposition vote to whatever was on their agenda. I, for one, would like to see all 59 seats declared abandoned, giving them a taste of their own medicine, but I doubt even Texas Republicans have the balls to do it...