Saturday, April 23, 2011

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.
"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.

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