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...small courtesy, but Charlie Stenholm never forgot it. During close re-election contests in the 1990s, Stenholm, the conservative Democratic Congressman from West Texas, never had to cope with George W. Bush campaigning against him. The Republican Governor never even posed for photos with Stenholm's rivals. "That doesn't happen by accident," Stenholm says...
...with Kantor and the President to encourage action on behalf of Chiquita. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican majority leader in the Senate, did it. So did John Glenn, at the time a Democratic Senator from Ohio. And Republican Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky, now a Senator. And Charles Stenholm, the Democratic Representative from Texas. And Richard Lugar, the Republican Senator from Indiana. And Mike DeWine, the Republican Senator from Ohio. And, of course, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky, who is Congress's most strident advocate of unlimited money in elections...
Izzard is a conservative, running in a conservative district against a conservative incumbent. What is so different about Izzard that voters would turn their influential incumbent Charles Stenholm, a conservative Democrat, out of office? Izzard says the difference is that he won't have to fight his majority party to get conservative things done...
...CHARLES STENHOLM (D) District...
...started as cotton farmer in Texas, became a powerful boll weevil in Washington--a Democrat who supported Reagan's budget and tax cuts--and now Stenholm's conservatism has earned him the label blue dog. Nevertheless, this veteran Democrat has served his heartland district since 1978 with a mission to pull his party back to the center. In the process he has earned the respect of colleagues on both sides of the aisle--one reason he is expected to be returned to Washington...