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Texas’s heavily Democratic 18th Congressional District has an empty seat. State law gives Greg Abbott the power to delay the election to fill it.

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[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Vote his dumb ass out. Abbott does not represent Texans nor has he ever stood for anyone's interests but his own.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

Too many of them have been smoking cow patties for too long to change that.

[–] dion_starfire@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sadly that's nearly impossible due to gerrymandering. For example, this is one of the districts in the state shaped to confine as many blue votes as possible to a single district: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_35th_congressional_district

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Governor is a statewide race, gerrymandering may discourage a certain amount of voting due to apathy, but it doesn't really change how votes are counted.

Also, Biden AND Harris received more votes than Abbott did in the last three races. We have the votes to remove him, just not the will.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No representation you say?

[–] oxysis@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago

:: eye twitches in Bostonian::

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 14 points 6 days ago

Are people from the district protesting not having representation?

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

People need to leave the states that hate them. I know its hard and money and all but GTFO.

[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

This is the inevitable result of Democrats always running geriatric candidates.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This makes perfect sense in the Banner State. If a representative is weak enough to die (or w**** enough to retire early) their p***** derserve a punishment.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 days ago

Trying to deconstruct what words mysterious need censoring

If you're witch enough to retire, you getting your pussy punished