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In reply to the discussion: An email from a Gohmert aide: [View all]Celerity
(43,107 posts)45. DeLay created it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_1st_congressional_district
The district was predominantly rural for much of its history, and thus was far friendlier to electing Democrats to Congress even as most of Texas swung toward the Republicans. The district's four-term Democratic incumbent, Max Sandlin, was a particularly severe critic of the DeLay-led redistricting effort, claiming that lumping rural areas with urban ones stifled the voice of rural voters. Indeed, the 2003 redistricting made the district more urban and Republican, especially with the addition of the Republican strongholds of Tyler and Longview. Sandlin was heavily defeated in November 2004 by Republican Louie Gohmert, a longtime judge in the Tyler area. Gohmert is the first Republican to represent the district since Reconstruction. Proving just how Republican the reconfigured 1st is, Gohmert has been reelected seven times with no less than 68 percent of the vote (and faced only token opposition in 2010 and 2012).
The district was predominantly rural for much of its history, and thus was far friendlier to electing Democrats to Congress even as most of Texas swung toward the Republicans. The district's four-term Democratic incumbent, Max Sandlin, was a particularly severe critic of the DeLay-led redistricting effort, claiming that lumping rural areas with urban ones stifled the voice of rural voters. Indeed, the 2003 redistricting made the district more urban and Republican, especially with the addition of the Republican strongholds of Tyler and Longview. Sandlin was heavily defeated in November 2004 by Republican Louie Gohmert, a longtime judge in the Tyler area. Gohmert is the first Republican to represent the district since Reconstruction. Proving just how Republican the reconfigured 1st is, Gohmert has been reelected seven times with no less than 68 percent of the vote (and faced only token opposition in 2010 and 2012).
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It seems that Gohmert did not tell his office who learned of it from the media. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2020
#18
I was speculating on incomplete info. A DU member told he did go in person to tell his staff. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2020
#31
he was just on the hannity radio show, a regular, of course, and they talked about what he
certainot
Jul 2020
#32
he's a postertwit for sex on the wrong brain. such a jerk no female could stand him, even
certainot
Jul 2020
#51
He said he didn't wear a mask because he was being tested regularly. Does he think the tests
Maraya1969
Jul 2020
#5
if he had ever been tested for anything he never would have gotten into high school and i think
certainot
Jul 2020
#33