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Texas House Redistricting: Let the Games Begin!

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Bud Kennedy beat me to it. I was just about to post about how the proposed State House District 88 on the redistricting map issued yesterday by Rep. Burt Solomons of Carrollton looks like…. well, since he beat me to the tweet, I’ll let the Star-Telegram columnist say it:  “Have you seen the proposed Texas House District 88? It looks like a triple score play in Words With Friends”

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You can see all the bloody details of this, and other, proposed maps here. The DistrictViewer lets you overlay different plans to compare.

Dallas County loses two districts – due to relative lack of population growth – under Solomons’ map.

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