No wonder the guy moved to Virginia. His redistricting cost his state, well, a lot:
the GOP-led remap of Texas congressional boundaries cost the state at least three chairmanships. Martin Frost of Dallas would be taking over the powerful Rules Committee, which controls how bills are amended and debated. West Texan Charlie Stenholm would be the new agriculture chairman, just in time to write the next farm bill. And East Texan Jim Turner would be preparing to run the Homeland Security Committee.
"New York, Minnesota and Mississippi should send us a giant thank-you card," said Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, referring to the states the incoming chairmen of Rules, Agriculture and Homeland Security committees call home. "Tom DeLay and Rick Perry's redistricting efforts gutted Texas. ... I hope that's a lesson that no one, neither party, should ever put pure partisan interest above the interest of Texas." [...]
It's all so deliciously Shakespearian.
