1. The Phil King map you link admits that "The map that King introduced in the current special session makes only minor changes in the 10th District", then goes on to claim that "A substitute could be made at any time, such as during a House-Senate conference committee. This may be a ruse to throw us off guard".

This is a source?

2. The Staples map by no means stretched any Travis County district down to the Valley. See PLANC01151. This is the map your man Barrientos could have obtained for you had he not run off to New Mexico. Now he will be coming back to lord knows what map.

So much for his service to you, his constituent.

Hang on, PLANC01151 is the CURRENT map. You want, from that link, to click on "All Other Redistricting Plans," then on PLAN O1268C for the version passed by the House twice.

Which just reinforces my point, as the 01268C map is eerily similar to the current map and certainly does not spread to the Valley.

King's map, PLAN01171C, does indeed spread from Austin to McAllen, probably to account for minority rights under the Voting Rights Act - but this map has never been seriously considered by anyone except alarmists hoping to foment opposition to redistricting. In any event, it would more likely result in a Congressman from AUSTIN imposed on McAllen than vice versa, would it not?

McAllen, San Antonio or Houston (where Austin's representatives would likely live under GOP redistricting maps)

If you ignore the propaganda site linked here, and instead refer to the Official Maps of the Texas Legislature, you will see that Austin would share absolutely no part of any districts with ANY of these three cities.

Have you yourself looked at the official proposed maps yet? They didn't make them publicly available for nothing.

Mark, you're right about the House map. It kept the 10th in tact. The map that passed the Senate committee did divide Austin into several districts... I'll look it up for you if you'd like... I'm about to head out right now. The point, though, isn't about this map does this to Austin and this map does that to Austin. Every single map proposed by the GOP has destroyed communities of interest, whether it be in East Texas, West Texas, Central Texas, Austin, suburban/rural, etc. The fact that some maps screw Austin, and others leave it in tact only reinforces my point that the proposed Redistricting destroys communities of interest in multiple cases - I was simply pointing to one of them.