Sidenote on Attny Benjamin Ginsberg: His connection to Texas redistricting

[liveoaktx]

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031208fa_fact

It was a version of the unholy alliance which may doom Charlie Stenholm and his fellow Texas Democrats. All the congressmen who are likely to lose their jobs in the new DeLay plan are white. Many of their black constituents have been transferred to safe Democratic seats, where they can’t harm Republicans. The unholy alliance has had the additional side effect, especially in the South, of making the Democrats the party of blacks and the Republicans the party of whites—which presents daunting long-term political problems for the Democratic Party. Many Democrats can’t help but express a perverse admiration for the cleverness of the strategy. Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican redistricting operative who helped to construct the unholy alliance during the 1990 cycle, referred to the initiative as “Project Ratfuck.”


***He's not only unethical but unscrupulous***

[MoonRiver]

1. ***He's not only unethical but unscrupulous***

How many Repukes aren't? Optimistically, I could probably count them on one hand.

:puke:

[liveoaktx]

2. Notice he called this *Operation Ratfuck*

As a Texan, I hope he gets brought up on charges before the bar, but not holding my breath.

[MoonRiver]

3. I'm sure he knows exactly how far he can go.

God help our country.