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...House majority whip Tom DeLay came home to Texas to stir up trouble. DeLay saw a chance to boost the Republican majority in Congress by redrawing the congressional districts to give the Texas Republicans a 22-to-10 advantage. The Republicans drew some funny lines, like the ones dividing Austin into four districts, one of them connecting the capital to the border of Mexico 300 miles away. Though redistricting is usually done only after a Census, DeLay had a pretty good rationale for wanting one, since Republi-cans beat the daylights out of the Dems in Texas in the last...
...arrest of members trying to thwart a quorum and force them back to their seats. So, like Jesse James heading for the Oklahoma hills to evade Texas Rangers, the Dems waited until the cover of night, then met in small groups at an Embassy Suites parking lot in Austin. With secrecy so tight that only the group leaders knew where they were going, the Democrats sneaked off, over the state border to the safety of Ardmore, Okla., 300 miles away. Sure, they could have gone to Mexico, but they wanted to show they were serious. Being in Oklahoma is like...
...Back in Austin, bored Republicans spread out in the chamber with their feet on the antique furniture. Two of them brought their mitts and played a pretty impressive game of catch. There was also a Texas-size paper-wad fight. They designed milk-carton boxes with the faces of missing Democrats, created a WANTED poster with shots of the rebels, established a toll-free number for information on their whereabouts and made a deck of Iraq-inspired playing cards with pictures of the Democrats on them. They even used the state's public-safety website to run an all-points...
...Democrats planned to head back to Austin at midnight on Thursday, the deadline for a preliminary vote on house bills. But a tornado warning scrambled their plans, and they boarded two luxury buses (smoking and non) at 10:40 p.m. As the buses fought fierce winds and rain, the Democrats watched Gladiator (nonsmoking bus) and The Fugitive (smoking bus). After arriving in Austin at 4 a.m., they scrubbed up for a 7 a.m. rally and showed up at their jobs at 9. Though they were met with some boos from the gallery and a lot of female Republicans dressed...
Your story on Bush's re-election efforts inspired me to think of a good slogan for the new campaign: "Let's really win in 2004!" DAVID HAUN Austin, Texas...