Democratic representative Lloyd Doggett, the oldest member of the Delegation of the Texas Congress, announced Thursday that he will retire instead of running for re -election if the new limits of the Congress district are not rejected in the Court, after the state republicans emerged their district of origin of the Austin area in new maps.
While Austin is currently divided into two districts represented by two Democrats, Doggett and representative Greg Casar, the new map combines those two districts to make a very democratic seat and another that leans republican and is more in San Antonio.
While Doggett had been telegraphying for weeks that he was planning to seek re -election for the blue seat in Austin, establishing a generational clash between 78 -year -old and 36 years old, is now in progress to retire, unless a court intervenes.
“If this Racially Trump map Gerrymander is rejected, as it should be, I will continue to seek re -election in district 37 of Congress to represent my neighbors in the only city that I have called a home,” Doggett said in a statement. “If the courts give Trump a victory in his scheme to maintain control of a compatible house, I will not look for re -election in the reconfigured CD37.”
“I wish the congressman to marry the best,” Doggett concluded.
Doggett has just achieved its 30th year in the House of Representatives and its 52nd in Texas politics. He has held important positions in the powerful media and media committee and other Chamber Committees with supervision on the economy and the federal budget.
Doggett was also the first Democratic Member of Congress to call the then president Joe Biden to retire from the presidential race in 2024, doing so in early July, since his party was enraged by the poor performance of Biden debate at the end of June.
Before winning his chamber seat in 1994, Doggett served as Judge of the Supreme Court of the State and a member of the state Senate. In 1979, it was one of the dozens of “murderous bees”, a nickname for the state of democratic senators who joined to deny the Republicans the minimum number of legislators required to carry out legislative businesses, also known as a “quorum”, a measure that hindered the Republican attempts to change the rules for the presidential primaries in the state.
More recently, Texas Democratic Legislators who fled the State earlier this month to delay the Distriction Redistribution Law backed by the Republican Party pointed to the “murderous bees” by discussing the long history of the rupture of the quorum in the state.
While Doggett has been a respected member of the delegation for decades, the decision of the Republicans to re -draw Maps of Congress in the hope of filling mostly in Washington created an uncomfortable situation for him and married, who leads the progressive Caucus of Congress despite having attended less than two complete terms in Washington.
Doggett has spent weeks to marry to marry to apply in the new District 35, the Rediseño district near San Antonio that President Donald Trump took to about 10 percentage points last year. During an interview on Wednesday on CNN, Doggett said he hoped that marry does not give up [his district] to Trump “.
“I think that the appeal he has led for the country with Bernie Sanders, to appeal to the unhappy Americans, particularly in Texas, unhappy Latinos, would be an important message to deliver there, and I hope we do not see that kind of conflict that Republicans are always trying to encourage, where the Democrats fight each other instead of fighting Trump,” he added.
Casar has been fiercely critical of the new Map of the Republican Party Congress, but has not publicly weighted the possibility of a primary against Doggett in the same way.
And this week, a handful of Texas Democrats, including former governor Net Casar, I would not do it in the shadow that does not go to the shadow, which comes in the shadow of the shadow about Dousar Dugget in the shadow that excessive in the shadow that feels in the shadow of the shadow, which produces the leader of the congress.
