Thread: Latinos Upset With Houston's Redistricting Plan

This is the reconquista in action here in Houston...in Texas...

A lot of people think that the reconquista is about revolution, taking
up arms, Che Guevara, Panco Villa and Zapata and some sort of dream
of a Mexican version of kristallnacht. The reconquista is being implemented
today not with bullets but on paper, in the court houses and city hall, with
corrupt politicians backed by, or intimidated by, racist special interest groups like
La RAZA and LULAC, people who don't give a hoot about our country
they're only concerned with what they can get from it, from us.

California is a lost cause, the reconquista has sucessfully driven it into the ground.
Rampant illegal immigration has bankrupted the state and much of their political
machine is under the thumb of Mexican special interest groups and there is no hope
in ever voting political traitors out. We can't allow Houston to fall to these same tactics,
As Houston goes, so goes our state. We can't let it happen.

Def


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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Latinos Upset With Houston's Redistricting Plan
Say the city is trying to "dilute" the Hispanic vote.
By: Joe Gomez


The city of Houston is looking to add two new city council districts to the nine it already has as a result of a population boom here.
The new districts would be carved mostly from white and black neighborhoods and while they would also have a sizable Hispanic population Sylvia Gonzales with LULAC thinks the plan still would not give Hispanics fair representation.
"Hispanics represent 44% of the total population of Houston," Gonzales said at a recent City Council meeting. "44 % nearly makes us half of the population here in Houston."
Gonzales and others argue that the new redistricting map won't allow Hispanics to gain another seat on the council when blacks and whites already have more despite the fact that the Hispanic population nearly outnumbers either race 2 to 1.
But Councilmember Mike Sullivan thinks that race shouldn't be a factor in determining who should be an elected representative.
"Look this is a democracy, people are given a chance to file and run for office... and whoever the public votes for is who should be able to serve them and it should be regardless of race."
Sullivan also says that the city is very integrated making it difficult to draw "racial" boundaries.


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13 April, 2011 by gregwythe Categories :
Houston/Harris
COH Redistricting: Public Hearing #1
I’m headed to the office from an early AM meeting. I’m told that the signup for speaking at Council and that today’s hearing will be limited in time. We’ll see.
9:15 … I’m 15 minutes late and they’re into the roll call of public comments.

Super Neighborhood 39 (Fondren Gardens) & 40 (Central Southwest) want to be in the new K instead of D. Rita Foretich speaking for both. She says they haven’t had anything new … interestingly referring to the fact that the area is one of those food islands.



Sylvia Gonzalez (LULAC) now up. Rejecting proposed plan since it does not reflect Houston. Hispanics are nearly half of the city. Exhibit 7 is turned in as a proposed plan.
Vivian Harris now up. Pct. Chair for 216. She’s got big cardboard things. Wants SN 39, 40, 41 together.

Marc Campos up next. Wondering where that third opportunity district is. Says that there is a group working on a plan to develop a new, non-incumbent Hispanic district. This is the argument for a southwestern Houston district since Gulfton is orphaned. I’m doing some research on options there, but I’m inclined to believe that such a district is likely to be just as illusory as the current two non-opportunities. The problem has to do with the low CVAP ratios on the southwest side. More on that later. JoJo drops my name in the convo with Campos. 13 minutes of fame left. There’s a discussion of a “powwowâ€

this ethnic/Hispanic nonsense needs to be stopped, it is destroying America. These people are OBSESSED with their ethnicity.

Some people need to learn to stop their misplaced compassion and political correctness. Instead you say no to ethnic politics because it is NOT an American value. It is destroying our country.

Same thing in Vegas

They are setting up a hispanic only district

I agree , this ethnic (mexican) garbage has to end , if it doesn't get ready
to do a kosovo here folks

And you will be the targets

My God, something has to be done! This is becoming another Country! It's all about the latinos/hispanics and to hell with everyone else.

Originally Posted by Kiara

My God, something has to be done! This is becoming another Country! It's all about the latinos/hispanics and to hell with everyone else.

Yes , its looking that way

But Councilmember Mike Sullivan thinks that race shouldn't be a factor in determining who should be an elected representative.
"Look this is a democracy, people are given a chance to file and run for office... and whoever the public votes for is who should be able to serve them and it should be regardless of race."

Ditto what Mr. Sullivan said.

I don't understand why they have to draw up districts along racial lines.
Why does a racist group like LULAC get a say in how the districts are
divided up? You add in all of the illegal aliens that were counted in the last
census and BAM! You get all new "Hispanic" seats in government that are
controlled by LULAC and La RAZA. We need to wake up before it's too late.

Def

From the Chron:



District proposal catches criticism
Group wants legislative map to reflect state's Hispanic growth

AUSTIN — Adopting the redistricting map proposed by the House Redistricting Committee chairman would be a sure-fire way for the state to end up in court, said representatives of a group of organizations that make up the Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force.

Their comments came during a Thursday telephone news conference in which the task force unveiled a map of its own that would add five Latino-majority districts.

State Rep. Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton, who chairs the redistricting committee, offered his plan Wednesday.

"It reduces the number of districts in which Hispanics have a majority of voters. It's retrogressive," Nina Perales, litigation director for the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, said of the Solomons plan.

Members of the task force, in addition to MALDEF, include the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, the American GI Forum, the San Antonio Hispanice Chamber of Commerce, the William C. Velasquez Institute and the La Fe Research and Education Center.

Hispanic population
In 2006, MALDEF successfully argued before the Supreme Court in LULAC v. Perry that the Texas congressional redistricting plan diluted Latino voting strength and violated the Voting Rights Act. Texas had to redraw its South Texas congressional districts.

Lydia Camarillo, vice president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, noted that Texas grew by 4.2 million people during the past decade; 65 percent of that growth was Latino. Latinos now account for approximately 38 percent of the Texas population.

Under the current map, Latinos are in the majority in 30 of the 150 House districts around the state; the task force map would increase that number to 35, with new seats becoming Latino-opportunity districts in West Texas, in the Panhandle-South Plains area and in Hidalgo and Starr counties in the Rio Grande Valley.

"You would have to work incredibly hard not to draw a new district there," Perales said.

Two existing seats in Harris and Tarrant counties would be redrawn so that Latinos would make up at least 50 percent of the voting-age population. Like the Solomons map, the task force map would reduce the number of Harris County districts from 25 to 24. It drops two in Dallas County.

Potential legal challenges
Perales said it was not difficult to draw Hispanic-majority and Hispanic-opportunity districts, despite dispersion of the Latino population throughout the state.

"The Latino areas of the state are getting more Latino," she said. "Anyone who says they can't draw districts because of dispersal is misleading you."

Perales said the task force map would pair 16 incumbents in eight districts, meaning lawmakers would face a fellow member in the next election or move to a new district. The Solomons map proposes 15 pairings, including that of state Reps. Scott Hochberg and Hubert Vo, both Houston Democrats.

"There doesn't seem to be a reason for drawing him (Vo) out of his district or pairing him with somebody else," Perales said. She noted that both districts are protected by the Voting Rights Act and pairing them could create a legal challenge.

joe.holley@chron.com

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/met ... 22785.html


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