More Houston shenanigans from the Texas GOP
"We Got You Surrounded.
Come Out With Your Hands Up!"
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston) won 15th term to Congress with 72.2% of the vote.
The Texas Tribune, 10/4//2021
Jackson Lee represents District 18, once represented by Barbara Jordan, who in 1972 became the first Black Texan elected to Congress after Reconstruction. There are families in the district who have lived there for 50 years, Jackson Lee said.
“The 18th [District] has been surgically, erroneously and unconstitutionally, under federal law, been drawn incorrectly,” Jackson Lee said.
The proposed new map “eliminates the base of the historical 18th Congressional District,” said Carl Davis, chair of the Houston Society for Change, who testified before the Senate committee. While the current congressional district map in Texas has one district with a Black majority of eligible voters, the proposed new map has none.
The proposed map increases by one the number of districts with white majorities and cuts the number of districts where Hispanic Texans make up the majority of eligible voters from eight to seven.
The current proposal moves downtown Houston, the Third Ward, Texas Southern University, the University of Houston and Jackson Lee’s own home out of the 18th District.
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