Thursday, September 6, 2012 Comments (0) E-mail Print Tweet Page 1 of 1 AUSTIN - Mexican American Legislative Caucus leaders pleaded this week for House Speaker Joe Straus to help Texas move past its "troubling racist history," and urged him to stop championing redistricting maps labeled discriminatory by federal officials. In a strongly worded letter delivered Wednesday, caucus Chairman Trey Martinez Fischer asks Straus to persuade Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to drop his planned appeal of the federal court's ruling that struck down a redistricting map that was passed during the state Legislature's last session....
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