Fort Worth Ignores Demands for Reform on Redistricting By Eric Griffey Fort Worth UPDATED 3:27 PM CT Feb. 05, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:23 PM CT Feb. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:23 PM CST Feb. 04, 2021
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FORT WORTH, Texas Bruce Miller has watched with great disappointment as a City Council-appointed task force creates the rules for the city’s redistricting process. The long-time TCU physics professor and now professor emeritus is one of a growing number of citizens who want the Council’s districts to be drawn by an independent body, not the council members themselves. Currently, as he sees it, the City Council is choosing its constituents, not the other way around.
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AUSTIN, Texas A North Texas state lawmaker is trying to diversify the Texas Capitol.
Rep. Carl Sherman, D-DeSoto, wants his fellow lawmakers to join his Diversity Under the Dome initiative. He s urging them to recruit people from different backgrounds to work as legislative staffers. When you have diversity in any organization, you re much better, he said. You understand all of the different dynamics that play out culturally speaking, ethnically speaking and as well gender speaking. And companies that are diverse outperform Wall Street according to Harvard studies.
Rep. Sherman is beginning his second term and says several of his fellow lawmakers have gotten on board. But he s pushing for it to be a bigger bipartisan effort.