Texas tactics not right for Ohio GOP

[SoCalDem]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/opinion/content/opinion/daily/0823redis.html

Texas tactics not right for Ohio GOP

A Dayton Daily News Editorial

So is Ohio going to be the next Texas?

Will Ohio Democrats have to go to Indianapolis or Pittsburgh to thwart Republican plans? Some Ohio Republicans, taking a page from the Tom DeLay, hard-core right-wing Republicans of Texas, want to redraw the state's congressional districts. Never mind that this has already been done in the wake of the 2000 Census; and that Republicans did it.

Never mind that before the Texas effort, everybody played by the rule that once a decade is it for redistricting. Never mind that nothing has changed as to where people live. (The new map would, of course, be based on the 2000 Census, just as the current one is.)

Never mind that the Texas Republicans have been denounced by other Republicans for overreaching, or that Texas has become a national laughingstock as the result of its fight over this issue. (Democratic legislators have left the state twice, so as to deny the Republicans the quorum necessary to conduct business. If the Democrats were in the state, they could be arrested and forced to attend, under an old law.)

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Despite all that, Republican state Chairman Robert T. Bennett (under White House urging, some suspect) and Cuyahoga County Chairman Jim Trakas have been floating a plan that would give the Republicans another district by merging two high-profile Democrats into one district. The immediate victims would be presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Rep. Sherrod Brown.


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[radfringe]

1. GOPers will do anything

and everything to "win"

Running to the Supreme Court, Recalls or RE-redistricting are just the beginning. If they succeed in CA with the recall, there will be more Dem Gov's targeted, ditto if they succeed in TX

[Old and In the Way]

2. I think it's turning into desperation......

We are talking major criminal conspiracy here folks. The Republican Party is doing things like gerrymandering as a way to preserve their fragile majorities in both Houses. It's like they are accessories to criminal actions of this administration and they are in a panic to game the system while they still can.

There is an awful lot to investigate since 2000 and I think they realize that a power shift in Congress will threaten to expose everything that these people have done in their War on America.

It's panic time in the GOP.....wonder if the rank-and-file are beginning to stampede for the exits yet?

[radfringe]

3. ".. if the rank-and-file are beginning to stampede for the exits yet.."

with the reich-wing stranglehold on GOP, if rank and file start stampeding for the exits they will probably be greeted by Tom Delay and a squad of machine guns