Fort Worth City Council members voted 6-4 along partisan lines to oppose Tarrant County’s unusual mid-decade plan to redraw precinct lines, standing against the adoption of any map that would change the existing precincts.
“We’re standing not against Tarrant County — we’re standing for the residents of this county,” council member Chris Nettles, a Democrat who initiated the proposal to oppose county redistricting, said immediately before voting during the council’s Tuesday meeting.
Nettles and fellow Democratic council members Elizabeth Beck, Carlos Flores, Jeanette Martinez, Deborah Peoples and Jared Williams voted in favor of adopting the resolution. Mayor Mattie Parker and Republican council members Alan Blaylock, Charlie Lauersdorf and Macy Hill voted against. Michael Crain, also a Republican, was absent…