Rep. King: Is there a euphemism committee looking for members?

During the on-going discussion of amendments to the amendments to the amendment to the House Rules resolution, Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, raised the topic that everyone knew was going to come up: How to tackle redistricting.

When putting forward a proposal to create party parity in the House’s Redistricting Committee, King delicately stepped around the last gerrymandering and the massive legal fall-out that resulted.

“I’m assuming in the interim there’ll be a lot of redistricting hearings all around the state, as there should have been last time and there wasn’t, and we kind of got slapped by that a little bit by the justice department for not having a lot of hearings.”

Well, that’s one way of putting it.

This article appears in January 23 • 2009.

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