Posted on 01/25/2004 2:01:49 PM PST by harpu
TX-32 & incumbency: Frosts home for nearly three decades, and Sessions has never even voted there
Battle-tested in TX-32: Frost has won 11 contested elections in TX-32 territory; Session has won only 4.
Frosts close ties to TX-32: Hes lived in TX-32 territory for 29 of the last 31 years, and represented key parts of it for 25 years. For 25 years, hes been an effective, high-profile Member in the Dallas-Fort Worth media market. TX-32s Oak Cliff neighborhood has been Frosts home for nearly 30 years, and hes represented it for 25 years. TX-32s Irving neighborhoods supported Frost during the more than a decade he represented them. Many of his relatives live in its North Dallas section, and the great bulk of his financial support has come from the redrawn TX-32 over the years.
Sessions has never before been eligible to vote in TX-32: Until the new lines took effect last month (12/03), Sessions still lived in TX-5 - the district he abandoned after 2001 redistricting. Until 12 months ago (1/03), Sessions had represented only a tiny fraction of TX-32 territory. Sessions has only served one term in CD32
.He has never battled for an election in this district. [Quorum Report, 1/15/04]
TX-32 is competitive and diverse: 50% minority, home to Dallas Jewish community
New TX-32 is 50% minority and growing (36% Hispanic, 8% African American and 6% Asian), making it one of the most diverse districts in Texas. Only 1 Anglo Republican in the nation represents a district with a larger minority population than TX-32. (U.S. Rep. Pearces NM-2 is 50.5% minority.)
TX-32 includes the Dallas Jewish community. Frost is the only Jewish Member ever elected from Texas, or ever elected to the Congressional leadership of either party.
Frost: Effective, pro-defense moderate, with record fitting TX-32 & history of beating GOP challenges
GOP operatives have promised to defeat Frost before and failed. In the 1990s, he repeatedly won re-election in a competitive district despite numerous nasty, attack-filled, multi-million-dollar national GOP challenges.
Frost will have the resources to win: A proven fundraiser with broad support across party lines, Frost is the top Democrat on the powerful House Rules Committee and the Dean of the Texas Delegation.
- - Fox News/Roll Calls Mort Kondracke: Well, I just hope that two guys survive, Martin Frost and Charlie Stenholm
Martin Frost is a moderate. [FoxNews, Beltway Boys, 1/10/04]
Dallas go-to Member, Frost fits the diverse, highly educated TX-32 better than Sessions: While Sessions voted to allow polluters to keep fouling Dallas air and against President Bushs landmark No Child Left Behind education reforms, Frost has a record of moderate, effective leadership on issues like national security and veterans, child protection and education, and fiscal responsibility and job growth.
- - Frost voted with the conservative Dallas Morning News editorial board more than any other North Texas House Member in 2003. Sessions opposed the paper almost twice as often as he sided with them.
Strong on national defense and homeland security: Frost voted for the 2003 and 1991 wars against Saddam Hussein and has a 25-year record of working to strengthen our military and improve the quality-of-life for troops and their families. Two years ago, he was the only Democrat on the Select Committee on Homeland Security to vote to create the new Department of Homeland Security.
Frost authored vital legislation to crack down on child predators (like last year's National AMBER Alert Act, which he wrote with U.S. Sen. Hutchison, and a 1996 two-strikes law against child molesters).
Hes a veterans advocate who brought to North Texas its only national veterans cemetery - serving one million vets and their dependents in the area.
Frost is fiscally responsible, pro-growth & has helped create and save thousands of North Texas jobs.
- - Local jobs at American Airlines: When N. Texas largest employer, American Airlines, faced bankruptcy last year, Frost brought together management and labor to negotiate an 11th-hour agreement to avoid Chapter 11, saving thousands of jobs. 10,000 jobs at Pinnacle Park: Frost won approval for key highway interchange for Pinnacle Park development, creating 10,000 new jobs. Saved Dallas mass transit: Despite fierce opposition, Frost was the only Dallas County Member to actively support creating Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), a major economic success. Effectiveness for DFW Airport: Frost won funding for a new runway for the Airport and numerous safety upgrades - including state-of-the-art terminal Doppler radar after the deadly crash of Delta #191 exposed DFW passengers vulnerability to dangerous wind shear.
Pucker up folks...it's going to be brutal and hopefully entertaining as Frost goes down in flames!
Let us pray.
Moderate indeed.
Someone really needs to keep track of those who voted to not impeach Willie. Those are the sleazes we need to get rid of. As each of them goes on to non-Congressional wealth, we need to make a note of it.
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