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woah - another article in the Houston Chronicle and the state TDP is
jumping on this with fire and quickly! There's also an article on it
in the Washington Post
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/
> AR2005120101927.html

Dear Fellow Democrats,

What Democrats in Texas have long suspected has now been confirmed -
political appointees in the Bush Administration conspired with Tom
DeLay, Rick Perry, and Speaker Tom Craddick to deny the voting rights
of Texans in their mid-decade congressional redistricting scheme.
The following release from the Lone Star Project outlines information
obtained from an internal Department of Justice (DOJ) memo that
recommended an official DOJ Voting Rights objection to Tom DeLay's
redistricting plan based on illegal statewide retrogression of
minority voting strength, as determined by DOJ voting rights legal
experts and their Section Chief. This story also made many Texas
newspapers this morning - if you missed it, you can read it here -

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3497627.html

Instead of filing a DOJ Voting Rights objection that would have
tossed out the DeLay map, Bush political appointees overruled their
legal experts, issued a hush order, and hid this memo from the public
for almost two years