We are very late to this runoff due to the constraints put on our state by the voting rights ruling many years ago. This year is was extended for 25 more years. I call that extreme overkill of the federal government trying to control the state of Texas. I will be voting for Ted Cruz. I realize David Dewhurst is also fairly conservative but he has a history and for some reason I just don’t want that history to continue into the national Senate. If he wins the runoff I will vote for him but my preference is Cruz.
A Google search on voting rights in Texas turns up many articles but this one in Reuters shows its bias and explains the facts at the same time. We are still treated as if conditions in Texas are as they were in 1965. Here is some of what the article says:
Twenty-five hours of argument, starting on Monday and spread over five days, will help the judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decide whether Texas can require voters to present a photo identification at the polls.
Formulated at a time of racial turmoil, the Voting Rights Act passed 77-19 in the U.S. Senate and 333-85 in the House of Representatives. The votes transcended party lines to protect black voters of all political ideals.
Ever since, it has served as the U.S. government’s chief check on the fairness of election rules imposed by local governments.
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In the 1960s, Democrats held a monopoly of voters in the Southern states. But since then, most white Southern voters have shifted allegiances to the Republican Party, while black and Hispanic voters moved further toward the left.
That shift did not fully manifest itself until congressional redistricting last year, Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Columbia Law School, wrote in a to-be-released article in the Stanford Law & Policy Review. There have been more challenges to the Voting Rights Act in the past two years than in the previous 45 years combined. Among those challenges have been a redistricting case in Alabama and Florida’s purging of voter lists of non-citizens earlier this year.
“We’re seeing people who previously supported the act and what it stood for are now bringing challenges to it,” said Ryan Haygood, director of the Political Participation Group at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
I find it ridiculous in this day and age of so many gains by minorities that those who still want to claim victimhood think we in Texas and other southern states should be held to something that happened so very long ago. Now, remember I am old enough to know what it was like back in the day and I know for a fact this is not anything like the times before 1965.
