Statements about Redistricting
Says he represents or has represented about half the San Antonio-rooted district in which he seeks election.
"It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order."
"This year’s redistricting has been the most open, interactive and transparent redistricting process in Tennessee history."
Says that after she declared her candidacy for Congress, "the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their re-election."
More Hispanics "have been elected statewide (in Texas) on the Republican ticket than on the Democratic ticket."
Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries."
"The governor won this state with 49 percent. We had some of the closest races in the House in history. So you’re not dealing with this 70-30, like they want to make it."
Says "over the last 48 years, every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the Legislature, with the exception of Jim McGreevey in 2003."
Proof of citizenship isn't necessary before you register to vote in Florida.
"About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district."
Says that to drive the length of the newly drawn 15th District "you’d find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from Columbus to Niagara Falls."
Says that U.S. Rep. Allen West is "a constituent of mine."
Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of "her state Senate district by a half a block."
"Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you, the people."
"The Florida Legislature has not filed a lawsuit to fight Amendments 5 and 6."
"I did not vote to spend money to fight that (Amendment 6 redistricting) lawsuit."
"There is no $30 million pot of money" for redistricting issues, including defending redistricting lawsuits. "Your tax dollars are not being spent on anything like that."
Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas "gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991."
"We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process."
Says Rick Perry is "the guy that tracked" down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003.
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