Texas' Legislative Districts

Ah, the memories. It wasn't that long ago that Tom DeLay and the Texas Legislature came up with their grand plan to re-draw Texas' legislative districts. As a result, my district (District 25) is now a long, narrow, snake-like object that goes all the way to the coast. Austin was carved up pretty much out of spite in an extremely anti-democratic maneuver. I attended the hearings in the Texas Capitol when this change was proposed, and the whole time I was there, I didn't hear a single person speaking in favor of this. The committee politely listened to everybody overwhelmingly testifying that this was a bad idea, and went ahead and imposed Tom DeLay's vision on Texas anyway.

And where is DeLay now? A reject from "Dancing With The Stars." But he will be making huge amounts of corporate money for his influence and connections. There is a powerful employment agency for the well-connected, even if there are few decent jobs for the average American