And Cuellar Attended DeLay Fundraisers
Dan Eggen of the Washington Post reports that the career lawyers in the Justice Department decided that the DeLay redistricting plan hurt Latinos and African-Americans but were rolled:
Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.
The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department’s voting section, said the redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts. It also said the plan eliminated several other districts in which minorities had a substantial, though not necessarily decisive, influence in elections.
Yet many suspect that Henry Cuellar supported DeLay’s redistricting plan. Goodness knows Cuellar wouldn’t be in Congress if it wasn’t for DeLay.
January 7th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
[…] DeLay got Cuellar into office by drawing lines designed to dilute black and Hispanic voting power. One way or another Cuellar’s connection to DeLay will get Cuellar tossed from office. Will it be when old lines are restored? Or will simply be when the voters learn that Cuellar spent his 2 years in office voting for the Bush/DeLay legislative agenda? I’m sure the “K Street Project” will take care of Cuellar once he’s out. He’s been their kind of Dem. […]