Gerrymandered Gohmert

Texas District No. 1 (click here)

Louie Gohmert is so confident in his forever seat in the House all he does is seek egotistic opportunities promoting Right Wing rhetoric and hatred.

The link above is Gohmert's official website. There it little to no other topic on the front page except the Rightest of the Right Wing media. Today the top of Gohmert's website is Hannity. The listing below the Hannity clip is an article from Newsmax.

The rest of the front page is about soldiers, veterans, 9/11, hatred of illegal immigrants by complaining some kind of amnesty program. The really interesting article is this:

August 9, 2012 

WashingtonReps. Louie Gohmert (TX-01), Trent Franks (AZ-02), Michele Bachmann (MN-06), Tom Rooney (FL-16) and Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03) sent letters a few weeks ago to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State. These letters seek answers about the U.S. government’s involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that calls for “civilization jihad” against America....

These guys are bizarre. They are in office because of voter manipulation of their gerrymandered district. Gohmert comes from Texas 1 District. Texas has been nothing but brick red in every federal election for as long as I can remember. When the rest of the nation was voting blue, Texas was red in recent decades.

It consists largely of three small East  Texas (click here) metropolitan areas — Lufkin-Nacogdoches, in the south, Longview-Marshall, and Tyler.

For most of its history, the district was based in Texarkana. However, in a controversial 2003 redistricting orchestrated by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texarkana was drawn out of the district and moved to the neighboring Fourth congressional district. Lufkin, Tyler and Longview were added in its place.

The district was predominantly rural for much of its history, and thus was far friendlier to electing Democrats to Congress even as most of Texas swung toward the Republicans. The district's four-term Democratic incumbent, Max Sandlin, was a particularly severe critic of the DeLay-led redistricting effort, claiming that lumping rural areas with urban ones stifled the voice of rural voters. Indeed, the 2003 redistricting made the district more urban and Republican, especially with the addition of the Republican strongholds of Tyler and Longview. Sandlin was heavily defeated in November 2004 by Republican Louie Gohmert, a longtime judge in the Tyler area. Gohmert is the first Republican to represent the district since Reconstruction.

Gohmert is a gerrymandered House Republican. He has experienced no legitimate election.

Election results from recent races

Race and year	Results
2000: President	Bush 68 - 32%
2004: President	Bush 69 - 30%
2008: President	McCain 69 - 30%

Gohmert was elected into office in the same proportions as the Presidential races. The link indicating the composition of Texas District 1 is Wikipedia. If one examines the entire page on Wiki about this district it is easy to note the Democrats have dominated this district since 1845. There were two exceptions to that all these years, until, it was gerrymandered by Tom Delay.

Gohmert is an illegitimate House Representative and probably one of the most overtly obvious example of illegitimate House Representatives. 

Amazing and Texas actually considers itself part of the USA? Republicans are sad examples of any leanings of democracy.