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...election campaign, according to an Oct. 20 article in Newsday. Yet the other obstacles still in Ellison’s way are, according to Segal and Kremer, potentially insurmountable. Flanagan has been in the state legislature for almost two decades. And there are more registered Republicans in the district than Democrats, according to Segal. According to Segal, districts in New York also tend to be “gerrymandered,” giving Democrats an advantage in the Assembly but Republicans a lead in the Senate. While Democrats nationwide have been counting on disenchantment with President Bush...
...Skilling's sentencing, meanwhile, brought some cause for celebration for Enron victims, and not just because of the prospect of him behind bars for a long, long time. A criminal forfeiture and restitution agreement was announced the same day - about $45 million will be dispersed by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon to victims in pending civil lawsuits. Judge Sim Lake originally ordered a $5 million fine to be paid to the U.S. Government, but then changed his mind. "No fine - it will all go to the victims," he said. Seattle attorney Lynn Sarko, who represents employees in Enron retirement fund...
...course, organization is the key and Republicans handily beat Democrats in turnout in the spring primary by some 25,000 votes. But in this flatland district, Sekula-Gibbs has an uphill battle...
...Lampson will win," said Austin Republican political consultant Bill Miller. "This is all about 2008, when the district goes back to the Republicans." And, hopefully, to a more orderly election process...
...Lampson is running a campaign focused on local issues. At an area-wide Democratic candidate forum he eschewed the antiwar/anti-Bush rhetoric of his fellow Democrats and focused on health care and transportation. Meanwhile, Republicans in this conservative district are trying to link him to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic donors like Barbra Streisand. With $3.3 million in the bank and an $850,000 television ad buy courtesy of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Lampson is stressing his early struggles in a poor, hardworking Texas family and his work for education, his support of the Johnson Space Center (it became...