(Community Matters) from Politico
HUDDLE EXCLUSIVE: DOGG-GONE?: TEXAS REP’S PRIMARY OPPONENT RAISES HALF A MILLION — Joaquin Castro will announce a $500,000-plus third quarter fundraising haul this morning, according to his campaign, a number that should run a shiver down the spine of Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas). Doggett’s current district was obliterated in a remap of the state that is still being litigated, but he and Castro are on a crash course for the type of bloodsport primary that only redistricting can produce. Castro has filed to run in the 35th District, which runs from San Antonio to Austin and has a majority-Hispanic voting-age population. Doggett’s planning to run there, too. It’s now clear why he refused to part with the more than $3 million he sat on as Democrats lost the House in 2010.
Castro’s cash could also make things uncomfortable for Hispanic Democrats in Washington, who will carefully calculate whether to steer clear of the race or jump in on one side or the other. Had he been unable to raise money, Doggett would have been a safer bet. Among those to watch is Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), a longtime Doggett friend who has been neutral so far — like most members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and a Texan, may be in the toughest spot of all.
Doggett could still choose to run in a GOP-leaning remnant of his district, which Castro campaign manager Christian Archer said would be “the ideal scenario.” The Texas map is now in the courts and it could change, but it seems unlikely that the new district, drawn to elect a Latino candidate, would be heavily redrawn.
Community Matters 
It is hard to imagine that the 32nd District boundaries will change much. If the Republicans who drafted the boundary plan acknowledged that there would have to be some Democrat-majority districts, it would serve their purposes well to create one that (a) had a Hispanic majority, (b) had most of its population oriented more to San Antonio and to Austin, and (c) had g good chance of replacing a liberal Democrat with seniority with another Democrat with no seniority (and who might possibly be a less doctrinaire liberal at least on some issues). I want to vote for Lloyd; I’ve supported him in every election since Jake Pickle retired. But I don’t see how he can get out of the corner this redistricting has backed him into.
Make that 35th!