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How you feel about changing the process largely depends on how you came out in the last redistricting cycle and how you will come out in the next one.

Tim Storey

It's the first case in which the redistricting was for a political gerrymander. It wasn't a byproduct. It was the goal.

Rolando Rios

Racially balanced isn't the term that our board uses but it does have a policy that clearly states that when we do a redistricting we should not affect the diversity of a school any more than is necessary when drawing a line.

Jay Dillon

The reason they are changing the criteria along with who does the redistricting is because they want to shift power from one set of hands to another.

Paul Hefner

I view it in terms ... as I would the Bible for African-American politicians, when you look at the 1992 elections and the redistricting.

Melvin Watt

The issues of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.

Michael Ariens

This really is a pre-emptive move. It's pretty plain that Washington Woods in the next two to four years will have a significant amount of new construction, or is likely to. (Redistricting will) keep it from having massive overpopulation problems.

Garrick Phillips

This is not like a Fishers or Carmel redistricting. This is not a massive redo.

Garrick Phillips

The benefit the Republicans have is geography and redistricting. There is a very small window for Democrats to take advantage of.

Matthew Dowd

If the ruling is simply that nothing in federal law prohibits mid-decade redistricting, that will not help them.

David Fine

Most members don't do that to that degree; the only time they ever called the state reps they knew was when it was redistricting time.

Stan Brand

The stakes are incredibly high, ... Every congressman is keenly aware that redistricting looms.

Tim Storey

The court itself is unclear on what direction it is going to take in these redistricting cases. Texas may clarify the confusion.

Michael Ariens

The redistricting will separate my child from everyone he's known for three years.

Tracey Haley

The fact that so many congressional seats are noncompetitive is not fair, but one state reforming the way it does redistricting is like unilateral disarmament.

John Laird

From the very beginning, this redistricting has been about racial balance. Should children be assigned to schools based on skin color? That decision was made early on in this process.

Lindsey Tippins

This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas.

Dan Allen

Home rule gave city and county councils the authority to redistrict themselves, but it did not do that for school boards. The delegation, through the General Assembly, is the sole authority for changing school board district lines. A lot of delegations don't even let the school boards look at their plan until it's drawn up and done.

Bobby Bowers

At one time, the Legislature was pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. But through redistricting, they managed to get rid of a number of women ... (who) were progressive.

Thelma Underberg

Whatever you think of redistricting, whatever you think of politicians, I don't know how an objective person wouldn't come to the conclusion that when you have two sides of a proposition, both sides should be governed by the same rules.

Howard Berman

I'm very concerned about the racial aspects of the current (redistricting) map.

Judson Hill