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In CD-33 Runoff, Garcia and Veasey Look to Widen Reach
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| Last Edited | TX DEM Jun 21, 2012 04:53pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the race to represent the new Congressional District 33, which was drawn to give minorities in the area more control in deciding their U.S. representative, Democratic runoff rivals Domingo Garcia and Marc Veasey have conflicting opinions on how they view the district.
Garcia, a former state representative who co-chaired the Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force, said that while he has reached out to every community in the district, he sees CD-33 as a “Latino opportunity district,” in which Hispanic residents could effectively choose who to put in office if they came together behind a candidate.
Veasey, a state representative, classifies the area as a “coalition style” district in which no one minority group would dominate the vote. Rather, for minorities to dictate the results of the district, voting groups would need to be drawn from Hispanic, black and other minority constituents. |
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