DOGGETT GOES TO WAR...

Quorum Report ^ | November 12, 2003

[SwinneySwitch]

Compliments Delay for being effective

With a court challenge hanging in the balance, Congressman Lloyd Doggett is running -- and running hard -- in the newly drawn Congressional District 25, which stretches from South Austin down to the Rio Grande Valley.

Doggett has announced he will run in the newly constituted CD 25, the only Democratic-majority district left in Travis County. And while Travis County will likely end up being the largest county in the nation without its own Congressional district, that’s not sufficient grounds for a panel of federal judges to declare the map illegal.

"This map is clearly wrong on so many grounds," Doggett told the South Austin Democrats at a meeting last night. "It looks crazy—and it is crazy and unfair to us—but that does not provide a legal basis to invalidate the map."

Doggett says the legal challenge to the redistricting map has "less than a 50-50 chance of succeeding" in next month’s federal trial, an assessment that has forced the Central Texas lawmaker into high gear in his campaign to win a new Congressional seat.

[SwinneySwitch]

I think they mean DeLay.;^}

[basil]

It would be WONDERFUL if we could get rid of Doggett once and for all!

[CPT Clay]

Hey basil
what's going on?
I miss you guys.
Freepmail me!!!

[DJtex]

I briefly met Lloyd Doggett when I lived in Austin. He's just a total politician. And Austin is a totally liberal town, so that's what Doggett is--for now. I'm not saying he'll become a conservative, but no other Texas district could possibly be as liberal as Austin--and Doggett will aim to please.

[basil]

Austin is certainly a very liberal town--but it can't hold a candle to the "Golden Triangle"--Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange!