November 20 at 10:00 am there will be a public hearing on redistricting. Houston will be
University of Houston Athletic Center, O'Quinn Great Hall
3100 Cullen Blvd
Houston, TX 77004
This is your only chance to have your voice heard (and, I might add, possibly change Sheila Jackson Lee's gerrymandered dragon of a district, District 18).
From the King Street Patriots:
Houston is expected to gain 2 additional congressional districts in 2011 and this is the only local opportunity for the public to provide input as to how all district lines should be redrawn for the U.S. Congress, State Senate and House, State Board of Education and Judiciary. Witnesses will be limited to 5 minutes each and may submit written testimony in addition to or in place of verbal testimony by providing 25 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Committee staff during the hearing. This venue will hold up to 200 people and witnesses must fill out a request to speak at the hearing
so please come early. A great deal of information about the redistricting process, state and federal laws governing redistricting and statistical information is also available at the Committees' website at
http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/redist/redist.html and is strongly recommended for review prior to the hearing. For more information email us at
info@kingstreetpatriots.org.
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