GOP lawyer who headed Texas redistricting wins congressional primary
A Republican attorney who played a key role in President Donald Trump’s unprecedented mid-decade Texas gerrymander last year is now the GOP nominee to represent one of the very congressional districts he helped redraw.
Chris Gober won a crowded primary this week, beating out nine other contenders for the chance to represent Texas’ 10th Congressional District, a bizarrely-shaped district that cracks off a segment of Austin and stretches across 150 miles of rural areas to end in west Houston. He will face Democrat Caitlin Rourk in November in the GOP-leaning district.
Gober stepped into the race after incumbent Rep. Michael McCaul (R) announced Sept. 15 he would not seek reelection.
Gober is one of the only Texas Republicans known to have played a central role in last year’s redistricting scheme, a process conducted so secretively that even the Texas House and Senate’s Republican redistricting chairs insisted in federal court that they had little to no knowledge of the proceedings.
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