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A set of crucial decisions that could impact the city’s politics for the next decade are going to start to play out Monday/19 at the Board of Supes Rules Committee – and most of the news media hasn’t even notices. The committee will recommend three people to serve on the city’s Redistricting Task Force, which will write new lines for the supervisorial districts based on the 2020 census. This is potentially critical – even small changes in the current lines could have a big political impact. And the task force will be making more than small changes: The city has picked up 80,000 new...

Oops, he’s done it again. In November, the day after Democrats retained super-majorities in both houses of the state Legislature, House Speaker Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, told reporters the 2020 election would be the last one with a 2nd Congressional District map resembling current boundaries. “So next time it’ll be a different district, and we’ll have to see what that means for Republican chances to hold it,” he said. The implication? U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell was the only Republican to win a major election in New Mexico last year, and Egolf’s lust for one-party domination was thwar...

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 SHARE 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 profe...