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July 09, 2003Dallas Senate HearingBy Byron LaMastersI'm about to go to bed (I know, it's late!), but I did spend about 10 hours at the Senate Redistricting Committee meeting today (2-12). There were about 500 people there, and I'd guess that between 95% and 97% opposed redistricting. U.S. Reps. Max Sandlin and Martin Frost were among the atendees. The committee was much more effecient than the House subcommittee hearings, and the senate committee had much more success maintaining order as the Republicans wisely let Democratic Sens. Royce West and Mario Gallegos do a lot of asking people to be quiet and orderly. The partisan Democratic crowd was more likely to listen to them, than say, Kenny Marchant at the House hearing. Lots of local elected officials spoke, and I believe that all opposed redistricting. They included the mayor pro tem of Dallas, councilman John Loza (I worked on his 2001 re-election campaign. He's a nice guy, and former Republican, and came around from the dark side about five years ago). Loza spoke forcefully against redistricting. One of the more heated moments of the day, and the one time where I thought that the hearing might break down was when Max Sandlin spoke. After his five minute time limit was up, Robert Duncan, the redistricting committee chair asked him to wrap things up, according to the committee rules. Sandlin kept talking, and refused to wrap up. Duncan made a silly comment along the lines of, "I've never been spoken to like that before". That's when the crowd got into and some people started chanting "Let him speak! Let him speak!". Finally, Duncan just decided to let Sandlin finish speaking, the crowd quieted down, and everyone seemed happy. A little later, the fire marshall came and made the people standing on the sides of the room and in the aisles to move to the overflow rooms. There were some objections, but most people were rather orderly. I left the room and did lots of wandering and talking. Several friends of mine had a Howard Dean table out and we got dozens of people to sign his ballot petition. Later in the evening, one of the brave Republicans who stayed started crying during her testimony when some Democrats called her a liar. She completely unraveled, cried, and directed her testimony more to the audience than to the committee. We were amused. I finally left around midnight. I was exhausted, and there were still several dozen people left waiting to testify. Posted by Byron LaMasters at July 9, 2003 04:32 AM | TrackBack
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I was last to speak at 2:30AM. During the midnight break, they had all remaining people who wished to testify come up and find their testimony cards so the Chair didn't have to read every card that indicated a wish to testify as most had left. The majority of everyone after midnight stayed the whole time. Posted by: Chris for Dean at July 9, 2003 12:36 PMOfficial total: 798 people signed in to speak at the Senate Hearing in Dallas yesterday. They were overwhelmingly opposed to re-redistricting. I don't yet have the exact for/against breakdown. Posted by: Dave at July 9, 2003 05:25 PM
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