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Marie callender's. it's time to savor. 2013 will go down in history as the year the united states supreme court gutted the voting rights act. in a 5-4 decision in june, they gutted the core of the law, that meant that nine states, mostly in the south, would be free to change their election laws without first getting preclearance approval from the federal government. we spent a lot of time this year talking about the potential and likely ramifications of this decision. now, on november 8th, we saw it play out in dramatic fashion on election day in one city in texas. pasadena, texas, a suburb ...

Department in december 2012. but then, the supreme court killed section 5 of the voting rights act in their 5-4 decision. and the mayor of pasadena, johnny isbel, made his move. >> he blatantly said at the first meeting we had, now that the preclearance from the voting rights act is gone, we're going to redistrict the city. >> in the mayor's own worlds -- >> the government can no longer tell us what to do. >> and the fact that council members don't care about citywide issues, the mayor put his own plan on the ballot. >> the mayor is aware of what this plan does, but he seems to not care. >> an...

>> but like a lot of texas towns, pasadena has changed radically since the days when john travolta walked the streets in a 10-gallon hat. >> pasadena no longer a small town but a not-so mrks small city. >> the changes come in the last ten years, thanks to explosive growth in the hispanic population, which has risen in a decade from 48% to 62%, making white people a minority in the new pasadena. luckily for them, they are still a majority of the voting population. while the hispanic population accounts for a majority of pasadena residents, hispanics make up only 32% of the city's voters, but th...

The mayor and eight council members. each member is elected from one of eight districts, each representing a section of the city. and for the first time in the city's history, there are now two hispanics on the council. one is cody ray wheeler. >> we kind of came in there and we were looking to bring change, reform to really engage in the community, and we called the mayor out on a lot of things that we thought weren't very honest. >> in august, isbel started pushing a plan to shrink the number of districts from eight to six and replace those two with at-large seats to be voted on by everyone ...

Similar at-large plan, it was blocked by the justice department in december of 2012. but then the supreme court killed section 5 of voting rights act in their 5-4 decision in shelby v. holder. and the mayor of pasadena, johnny isbell, made his move. >> he blatantly said, now that the preclearance from the voting rights act and gone, we're going to redistrict the city. >> in the mayor's own words -- >> the justice department can no longer tell us what to do. >> so this summer, isbell, arguing that certain council members don't care about city-wide issues, moved to put his own at-large plan on t...