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The New Alamo? Water Wars in San Antone—Coming Soon to Your Community
By Nicholas Stix on July 27, 2013
Obama Attorney General Eric (“My People”) Holder announced on Thursday that he going to end-run the Supreme Court’s recent weakening of the anti-South provisions of the Voting Rights Act by litigating in lower federal courts, starting in Texas. [Eric Holder Takes the Fight for Voting Rights to Texas, By Hilary Hylton, Time.com, July 27, 2013]
Not yet clear: what impact this will have on the Edwards Aquifer case, a little-known legal battle in San Antonio in which the Reconquista war on America over the constitution and conservationism converge.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is demanding that a federal court overthrow the voting structure of the Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA) in order to guarantee that it be dominated by Hispanics. The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) has “intervened” (read: joined) on behalf of LULAC. [SAWS joins suit against EAA by Colin McDonald, [San Antonio] Express-News, August 27, 2012.]
The EAA provides the vast majority of the water to eight counties in Texas, predominantly Bexar (pronounced “bear”) County, which is dominated by San Antonio. With 1,382,951 residents (63.2 percent of them Hispanic), San Antonio is the seventh largest city in America. (The other counties are Uvalde, Medina, Atascosa, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Comal and Hays.)
There are 17 seats (15 elected) on the EAA. Three are currently in Hispanic hands. LULAC and other Reconquistas want control. To that end, their lawsuit enlists both the U.S. Constitution (14th Amendment) and the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act (VRA), designed to prioritize minority voters, and argues that the EAA’s voting structure violates the “one man, one vote” rule derived from the 14th Amendment, and dilutes minority power.
As usual, the Reconquistas are acting as if “residents” are actually American citizens with the right to vote. Hispanic “residents” may account for 58.9 percent of Bexar County—but, because many are illegal, Hispanic citizens are almost certainly less than a majority. Unless this is a war, invading a jurisdiction does not give foreigners the right to take it over. . . .
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