Word: tejeda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Corpus Christi firm gave $150,000 more. Such cozy bench-polishing tactics are not illegal, since Texas is one of only nine states where virtually all judges are chosen in partisan elections. It also has no limits on campaign gifts. "The appearance," says State Senator Frank Tejeda, "is that perhaps justice in Texas is for sale." Anthony Champagne, a University of Texas political scientist, puts it more directly: "You contribute to your friends and hope your friends will take care...
...Like the tango, the merengue never really left," says Cesar Ascarrunz, owner of San Francisco's Latin Palace. "It's just coming into its own again." Last winter Promoter Jose Tejeda staged a merengue extravaganza at New York's Roseland, and, he says, "the fire department had to come and block the doors because 5,000 people showed up." Merengue's ascendancy has been helped by a slackening of interest in the more energetic variations of salsa, which were tough on untutored feet and sartorially deficient...