In Redistricting Without New Census Data, GOP Rolls Dice With Growing Collin County

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It was just days ago when, surrounded by hundreds of disgruntled North Texans late into the night, House Redistricting Committee Chair Cody Vasut (R-Angleton) assured his colleagues that he had not seen a map of proposed changes to Texas’ congressional districts. He’d heard nary a whisper that a map was in the works by anyone, he said emphatically, ignoring the incessant heckling of a crowd that clearly believed he was full of shit…

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