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Just a simple Cherokee trial lawyer, Barkman has been forcing his opinions on others in print since, for reasons that passeth understanding, he was an unsuccessful candidate for state representative in 2002. His philosophy: "If people had wanted me to be nice, they should've voted for me."
Tom DeLay is leaving Congress, to terrorize and bully pastures greener. Sugarland Mayor David Wallace is apparently the inside favorite to defumigate his place on the ballot, according to Harvey Kronberg.
posted by The Local Crank | 11:50 PM
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I worked for the Texas Attorney General back during the litigation over the 1990 Redistricting. We used big clunky UNIX computers that took up half a room to design redistricting plans that were obsolete by the time they were presented in court. Now, the software can be run on a laptop and includes up to the minute census and vote data. Scientific, computerized redistricting can now, literally, abolish democracy, making the House of Representatives less competitive than the old Soviet Politburo. That is the Hammer's legacy.
I guess I should have said ELECTORALLY competitive; Congressmen can still freely denounce each other to the secret police or poison their rivals. There have been proposals to settle runoffs in Texas by gunfight. I personally prefer a caged death-match; two candidates enter, one candidate leaves. Broadcast on pay-per-view, it could generate sufficient funding to help our crumbling school system.
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