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Originally posted by Spanky
The registration is the key. Here in California the districts are so Gerrymandered that they are either safe Republican seats or safe Democrat seats. The General election is always a joke. The only way to get rid of incumbants is with a primary. Congressman Doolittle, who I think is number five in the Republican leadership, has his district right near the Bay Area in Lake Tahoe. He is Delay's right hand man. He has also been implicated in the scandals. He is a strong social conservative who constantly questions the whole idea of a separation of church and state. We tried to take him out four years ago but the establishment really came down hard on us. Cheney, Delay, Hastert etc. all came out and had fundraisers for him. But we are going to try again considering all the scandal and I think we have a good shot at it. I have heard talk of Republicans planning on doing the same thing to Delay in Texas. I have already received second hand threats from Delay's people so I know they are nervous.
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Believe me, after last session's redistricting, there's not a household in Texas that hasn't been thouroughly evaluated for signs of latent or patent republicanism. The thing is, everyone thought that Ft. Bend county would be the strong one for DeLay and the parts of Harris and Brazoria that he got in the redistricting would be a little tougher. They were from Nick Lamson's old district. But the interesting thing about Tom DeLay is that the longer that people know him, the worse they feel about him. Ft. Bend county voted only 52% for him, and that was before most of the recent stuff came out about him. Right now,
his polling is god awful in his district. If there've been veiled threats in California, there've been outright assaults in Texas. He still controls all the GOP money in this state, and NO ONE is going to beat him in a primary, unless he's sitting in a jail cell.
