Word: delayer
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...group of about 150 professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting passed the measure on a nearly unanimous voice vote after more than an hour of sometimes chaotic debate. They ran out of time before being able to consider the second proposal on the meeting docket, which would delay concentration choice until the middle of sophomore year. [On Thursday, Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian said that 175 voting Faculty members attended Tuesday's meeting, along with 28 non-voting members and guests.] Many details of the legislation approved yesterday still need to be ironed out, such...
...actual date of DeLay's resignation and its confirmation by the Texas Secretary of State will determine when an election for the seat will be held. If DeLay officially resigns before this Friday, April 7, a special election could be called for the next so-called uniform election date, May 13. If the resignation falls after April 7, Gov. Rick Perry (no relation to Bob Perry) could call a special election date later, or could hold the seat vacant until the general election in November...
...that case, a special election would be open to all comers, but it will be up to GOP officials to name a candidate to replace DeLay's name on the November general election ballot. In this scenario, any GOP winner in an earlier special election would probably have an edge...
...Meanwhile, it is likely that DeLay's pending move of his legal residence to Alexandria, Virginia, will not effect his trial on campaign finance irregularities. (His move out of the state is how DeLay is making himself ineligible for reelection.) "Mr. DeLay's political status has nothing to do with the criminal charges against him, and this changes nothing," Earle told the Austin American-Statesman Monday night. On the other hand, the criminal charges may have a lot to do with his political status, and as the political jockeying already under way in Texas makes abundantly clear, DeLay's exit...
...Meanwhile, Republicans were looking in disarray - even before the announcement this week that Tom DeLay would give up his House seat. Some House Republicans were quietly rasing concerns after Majority Leader John Boehner questioned the value of a 700-mile fence for the U.S.-Mexico border that was part of an immigration bill passed by the House in December, while Senate Republicans questioned if their leader, Bill Frist, was allowing his presidential ambitions to get in the way of passing immigration legislation. And as the Senate moved forward with a lenient immigration reform plan, a group of almost two dozen...