Talmadge Heflin Has Uncovered Widespread Illegal Voting(Texas)

TexasInsider.org ^ | 11/24/2004 | Seton Motley

[SwinneySwitch]

1 contested race.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Is it Talmadge Helfin (D) Talmadge Helfin (R)?

[lindor]

Andy Taylor, attorney for Representative Heflin, said “The evidence is disturbing but rock solid. It is rare to see so many voters vote illegally and then literally sign their name to it.

Nip it Andy! Nip it in the bud!

[Little Pig]

That would be Talmadge Heflin (R)

[Reagan is King]

Even though I don't know anything about this race I'll take a wild guess and say Hubert Vo is a Democrat. I know, I'm really going out on a limb...

[Racehorse]

Andy Taylor, attorney for Representative Heflin, said “The evidence is disturbing but rock solid. It is rare to see so many voters vote illegally and then literally sign their name to it. They seemed to have no fear that what they were doing would be uncovered.”

Just a couple of good ole' Texas boys having fun.  That's how we play politics down here . . . even within the same party.

The 28th Congressional District race may be settled, but the squabbling between Democrats Henry Cuellar and Ciro Rodriguez continued this week.

At issue now is the vast number of constituent case files that Cuellar, the victor in the general election, wants from Rodriguez, who lost his re-election battle in the Democratic primary eight months ago.

Rodriguez charged the Cuellar camp resorted to shenanigans when recounts in the March 9 primary overturned the congressman's victory and handed it to the challenger. Rodriguez has vowed to challenge Cuellar in the primary in 2006 to win back his seat.

Cuellar, who defeated Republican lawyer Jim Hopson of Seguin Nov. 2, is preparing for his move to Washington and is calling on Rodriguez to hand over files on constituents served in the congressional district.

In an interview, Cuellar acknowledged the transition is unlikely to be smooth and pointed to lack of cooperation from Rodriguez's office.

Gary Martin
San Antonio Express-News
Nov. 13, 2004

[bayourod]

He's a Republican but some of us have become very suspicious of him recently over allegations that he is using his political power to take a baby away from its mother because he and his wife want to raise the child as their own.

[Taggart_D]

[He's a Republican but some of us have become very suspicious of him recently over allegations that he is using his political power to take a baby away from its mother because he and his wife want to raise the child as their own.]

That sounds like the plot of the only "Walker Texas Ranger" show that I saw(with Chuck Norris).

[Michael.SF.]

Andy Taylor, attorney for Representative Heflin,

I feel safer just knowing Andy is on the case.

[Chapita]

Come on, Man! You know that is a safe assumption!

[nobody_knows]

Well surprise surprise surprise.......golllllllllllly.

[giotto]

Here's how you know the illegal votes were for the Democrat:
The article doesn't mention it. If the illegal votes had been for the Republican, the article would have said it at least once in every paragraph.

[DennisR]

But we all know it was Barney who was the real law-and-order force in Mayberry.

[bayourod]

In "Walker Texas Ranger" was the baby's mother an immigrant working in the home of the politician?

[deport]

What is the status of the immigrant's child and Helfin attempts at adopting it? Has it been decided and if so who got the child?

[DrewsDad]

“We saw that more than 100 people came in from other counties and voted in District 149 and even were brazen enough to write down their actual address in official voting records. Voters admitted their home addresses were in places as far away as Denton County - 300 miles away,” said Heflin.

I don't understand how they let these people vote or why they had to write down their address unless these were provisional ballots that were wrongly counted.

[bayourod]

I don't know. Really didn't pay much attention or keep up with the story. I vaguely recall that the mother is African.

[deport]

Yes she was an African immigrant..... I think it may still be in court. Heflin had a reasonable close call in 2002 when he won by only some 2000 votes against a Vietnamese paralegal who wasn't into politics as I understand it.

[Taggart_D]

No....I think she was a runaway teenage mom that got involved with a corrupt adoption agency.

[Reagan is King]

Come on, Man! You know that is a safe assumption!

lol, yes that was something I would have bet the house on!