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Congressman Cuellar Statement on Texas Redistricting Map Compromise

Statement

Date: Feb. 6, 2012
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Federal, State and Local Relations Elections

Today, Congressman Henry Cuellar, (D-TX), released the following statement after The State of Texas and the Plaintiff Latino Redistricting Task Force reached an agreement to accept a temporary congressional district map for the State of Texas:

"This is a historic development: the State of Texas has, for the first time ever, created congressional districts to reflect the looming Hispanic Community growth -- it creates a Hispanic CD in the Dallas Tarrant County Area and one in the Travis Bexar County Area. Hispanic will get two of the four new congressional districts. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. In none of the past four decades has the State of Texas given the Hispanic Community fair representation.


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