Re: Thieving Republicans Spanked in Colorado

"Sandman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Now if there were only a decent court in Texas to slap Tom DeLay and his
> sleazy band of repuke thugs.
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> "George M. Middius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > The Colorado Supreme Court brought down the hammer on the sleazy
> > Republicans, who had tried to steal elections for the next ten years
> > by illegally redrawing electoral districts.
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> > http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/01/redistricting.laws.ap/index.html
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> > Sometimes justice is served.
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Well, let's see what actually happen here. As we all know every ten years
the electoral districts are re-drawn to reflect the results of the census.
The general assembly in Colorado was to do this. Unfortunately, the assembly
had a slight Republican majority which meant the Republicans would
controlled the re-districting. The Democrats didn't like that, at all. So
what did they do? They force it to the courts. The court, happily, was
populated with Democratic appointees. Thus, the re-districting was done by
the court to the advantage of the Democrats even though they did not have a
majority in the assembly, rather undemocratic wouldn't you say.
After the mid-term election the Republicans had a large majority in the
assembly, thus they hope they could have the re-districting be done by the
people the constitution requires to do the re-districting.
But the court was still controlled by the Democrats so they ruled that the
court could make this decision.
The re-districting is suppose to be done by the reprehensive of the people,
the assembly, not by an appointed dictator. Perhaps, you have the wrong
thieves and perhaps it was not a spanking of the Republicans but a spanking
of Democracy and its fair practice.

Phil