May 29, 2003
Feisty Texans a Model For Democratic Party
Republicans dominate Texas politics, but the national Democratic Party could learn a simple lesson from the state: Before you can become the party in power, you have to be a real opposition party.
When 51 Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives left for Oklahoma earlier this month to derail a Republican redistricting plan, they did something that – for Democrats these days – seems radical: They stood up for themselves and for the democratic process.
Posted by Editor at May 29, 2003 06:11 PM
