On Friday, the Chronicle‘s featured metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist moved on from the topic of former Rep. Tom DeLay on to redistricting. Specifically, Casey addressed State Sen. Jeff Wentworth’s longtime efforts to pass legislation that would reform redistricting. Casey had this curious observation:
But in a development that drew no media notice that I could find, the Texas state Senate last year passed a bill that would remove the drawing of congressional lines from the Legislature and give the task to an eight-member citizens’ commission.
No media notice? Has Jeff Cohen taken away Casey’s research assistant?
The Dallas Morning News covered the Senate passage of Wentworth’s bill in 2005, and so did the Austin American Statesman (which also blogged about it just before it passed).
It’s true that a search of the Chronicle archives turned up nothing. Austin bureau chief Clay Robison must have been too busy working on a Sunday editorial to get that bit of news in the newspaper.
