[Mind-numbed Robot]

Ratliff is on the make. He is trying to do a Jim Jeffords with the hope of getting a plum assignment or just outright cash. He will not resign. You couldn't take a stick and run him off. Where else would he get such attention and so much money?

[Theodore R.]

What I don't understand is Ratliff hold on that NE TX district. Wasn't this the home of Sam Rayburn and yellow-dog Democrat for generations? This doesn't sound like a liberal Republican, Jeffords-style, area at all demographically. He may have been a Democrat before he was state senator, but I don't known.