Edward Blum has written this LA Times oped. For a different view, check out the Lone Star Project.
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A.J. Pate writes:

You might want to add this link:
For another view, check Texas Redistricting.
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A very interesting commentary by the BeldarBlog, a colorful Texas lawyer, who unfortunately has been unable to post since October 2005, apparently due to health problems.
I met Ed Blum here in Houston, when he was one of the plaintiffs in Bush v. Vera. The plaintiffs used a redistricting map that I had drawn with a colleague (the Owens-Pate plan) as a benchmark to measure the unfairness of the plan drawn by the Democratic-controlled legislature in 1991. The three-judge court, with Edith Jones as chief judge, discusses our plan at some length in Vera v. Richards, which declared the state plan racially gerrymandered. Our plan was mentioned in the Bush v. Vera opinions of Justices O’Connor and Kennedy. I also filed a brief amicus curiae in Bush v. Vera, which was a plea for the Court to declare gerrymandering unconstitutional per se.
You might find entertaining a tag-team effort by Beldar and me on Texas redistricting in Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/items/200411040005 . I had innocently sought to bring some light and reason on the subject, an effort which was apparently unappreciated by the closed minds of the left (at least one).
A. J. Pate

Demorep wrote –

The 10 year max census (Art. I, Sec. 2, Cl. 3) has ZERO to do with elections INSIDE a State.
Voters vote – NOT census populations.
Every election is NEW and has ZERO to do with prior elections.
Total Votes / Total Seats = Votes for each seat winner
or the inexact
Party Seats = Party Votes x Total Seats / Total Votes
i.e. 14th Amdt *EQUAL* protection / representation for each *equal* group of voters.
Way too complex for political math MORONS — who love gerrymander math since the 1200’s (formation of the English House of Commons) — about half the votes in half the gerrymander districts (of about equal census populations – instantly obsolete) is about 25 percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule — for 1 party control of regimes.
AKA — pack the most possible political enemies into the fewest political concentration camps (aka gerrymander districts).
Which gerrymander district in Texas (or anywhere on Mother Earth) is the worst ???
Some signs — its area is a small fraction of a square around the district, has lots of broken political subdivision lines and/or the winner gets 60 – 70 – 80 percent plus of the gerrymander district votes (esp. an above average winning percentage compared to all gerrymander district winner percentages).
The *real* ANTI-Democracy math is much, much worse due to the primary election math in *open* (no incumbent running) gerrymander districts — roughly 10 percent of all of the voters de facto control each gerrymander regime.