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...streets of Laredo. It is there, in the rough and tumble of South Texas politics, that Democrats may have a chance to gain a congressional seat following Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision that, for the most part, upheld the controversial redistricting orchestrated three years ago by former Congressman Tom DeLay. But the fight over the seat currently held by Republican Henry Bonilla also could reopen old wounds between the Democratic Hispanic base and liberal Anglo leadership...
...face that launched a thousand fundraisers and Democrats miss him so terribly that they are trying to persuade a federal judge to keep former Congressman Tom DeLay's name on the ballot this fall. Allowing the Texas Republican Party to replace DeLay, who says he lives and votes in Virginia, would cause great harm to the Democratic Party, the party's lawyers argued in an Austin federal court Monday. Proving that claim is crucial to their lawsuit so Democrats testified just how much DeLay meant to them. Embarrassing? "Maybe," said Cris Feldman, an attorney for the Democrats, "but necessary...
Historian Tom Chaffin is the author, most recently, of Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah...
...From SEA OF GRAY by Tom Chaffin, published by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux LLC. Copyright (c) 2006. All rights reserved...
...Subject e-mailed Ms. Veronica Stafford, whom he evidently met at "Tom's party" on Friday night. After several false starts, subject wrote that he thought they made a "real connection, not like a fake party-connection," and eventually invited Ms. Stafford to dinner that night, though he pointed out it was short notice and that she "probably already [had] other plans, but just in case you were free, you know, if you wanted to, or whatever...