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Texas US Rep. picks up 7 new votes; still trails
Victoria Advocate ^
| 4 Nov 2010
| WILL WEISSERT
Posted on 11/04/2010 7:09:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog; DrewsDad; txhurl; basil; SwinneySwitch; lormand; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Xenalyte; ...
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posted on
11/05/2010 10:15:13 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Work harder than ever for 2012.)
To: lentulusgracchus
Whoa, never heard about that. Tell me more.
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posted on
11/05/2010 10:16:26 AM PDT
by
davetex
(All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
To: Arrowhead1952; DrewsDad; txhurl; basil; SwinneySwitch; lormand; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Xenalyte
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posted on
11/05/2010 10:22:11 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
11/05/2010 10:28:13 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Work harder than ever for 2012.)
To: davetex
Google up "Billie Sol Estes" and "Bobby Baker".
Estes was a con man who passed money to LBJ via Baker, LBJ's version of Thurlow Weed and Paul Begala.
Estes was running a con using stored grain, and a federal inspector came sniffing -- and was never seen again.
LBJ had a lot to answer for. Living on either a schoolteacher's or a congressman's salary, by 1964 he and Lady Bird were worth $9 million in cash, stock, and property (including an Austin TV station Lady Bird owned -- or rather held in Lyndon's name).
Crooked as a dog's hind leg.
To: Past Your Eyes
How in this day and age do you just happen to “discover” uncounted ballots?I don't know, but I think you have to be a Democrat to know all the tricks on how to do that.
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posted on
11/05/2010 12:20:03 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Pablo is very wily.)
To: lentulusgracchus; davetex
What? You don't believe someone can commit suicide by shooting themselves 5 times with a bolt action rifle?
#1
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posted on
11/05/2010 12:51:05 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
To: lentulusgracchus
I vaguely remember the Billie Sol Estes name as a young kid. Didn’t he also have something to do with some land scam outside of Houston? Can’t remember the name of the place now.
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posted on
11/05/2010 3:17:29 PM PDT
by
davetex
(All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
To: davetex
The land scandal
may be the Sharpstown scandal of the early 1970's that brought down a group of state politicians around the then-speaker of the Texas house, Gus Mutscher. I think that was the time that Sissy Farenthold became semi-famous in Texas politics, along with the Daniel family, for standing up to the "players".
Estes was from south Texas and played down there. As I recall, grain was his medium of play.
To: lentulusgracchus
Oh that’s it, Sharpstown. I’m sure I’m confusing things. You should write a book about Texas politics. It seems to me you know and remember all these things from 40-50 years ago. That’s very impressive to me, as my memory goes all the way back to day before yesterday.
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posted on
11/05/2010 9:08:59 PM PDT
by
davetex
(All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
To: Texas Fossil
“Yep, LBJ and George Pharr in Duval County.”
Infamous Box 13 was in Jim Wells County, not Duval.
BTW We now have new Conservative Republican House Rep, Jose Aliseda, in District 35, that includes Jim Wells County!
PTL and pass the ammunition.
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posted on
11/07/2010 7:46:23 AM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(I get nervous and worried when I see NPR employees boarding my plane.)
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