Not quite:

The Washington Post has a story that recaps the recent Democratic-legislators-bugging-out-of-Texas story, with emphasis on how Representative Laney's plane was tracked. It's detailed, and reports multiple instances where Federal law enforcement was called in to track down the Democrats. However, this line does not belong in the story:

Both parties, in Texas and other states, regularly try to redraw congressional boundaries to concentrate or dilute blocs of voters to favor their own candidates.

Nope. They don't regularly try to redraw boundries. If anything, they "regularly" (i.e. every 10 years) redraw boundries according to custom.


posted by Quiddity at 6/07/2003 02:09:00 PM