Re: Texas redistricting & fairness

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I know it wasn't Dan Burton!
JD

	
	From: Eugene Coyle [mailto:eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx] 
	
	That was Phil Burton, wasn't it?
	
	Gene
	
	Michael Perelman wrote:
	

		In all fairness, John Burton did one of the first modern redistricting in
		California.  What is new here is that the Repugs. want to do it whenever
		they can rather than wait for the next census.
		
		
		On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:32:30PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
		  

			On Friday, December 12, 2003 at 14:33:22 (-0500) Michael Hoover writes:
			    

					mpollak@xxxxxxxxx 12/12/03 10:14AM >>>
					            

				>From today's Washington Post:
				Judge Patrick Higginbotham, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
				Circuit and one of three federal judges hearing the case, seemed
				skeptical
				of the Democrats' suggestion that redistricting had ever been a
				scrupulously fair undertaking. ...
				...
				surprise, surprise, courts (or 2 major parties for that matter) have
				adequately addressed integrity of competitive electoral process as
				constitutional matter...so-called good-clean gov't/fair election types
				correlate competitive and meaningful which, i suppose, has some
				validity...of course, choices in competitive contest may/may not
				themselves be meaningful...
				      

			I'm surprised that on a progressive econ list such as this, the
			motives of the gerrymanderers (er?) to escape competition have not
			been compared to those who undertake corporate gerrymandering of
			markets to avoid dread "ruinous competition" and how thereby a large
			percentage of our so-called market economy is anything but.
			
			
			Bill
			    

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