Sanchez was a liberal. He was in favor of abortion, racial quotas, and more public school spending. He ran as a DemocRAT because was a DemocRAT. He was a former aide to a DemocRAT. After you registered on Free Republic, you immediately began stumping for him and encouraging Texans to support for him. You are obviously a troll, and I don't know why you haven't been expelled from FR.
Sanchez was a political appointee of GW Bush when he was Governor.
Furthermore, holding Sanchez personally responsible for what drug dealers did in his S&L sounds familiar to something. Yeah, sometimes people hold VP Cheney personally responsible for everything Halliburton has done. You are not being intellectually honest here. Unless, of course, you do hold Cheney responsible for everything Halliburton has done. But my money says that you're not intellectually honest.
For the record and to the benefit of those who are not in Texas:
The Democrat that Holden Magroin refers to is Ben Barnes. Ben Barnes may be a familiar name because he was in the news again a year or so ago. A prominent Democrat in the early 1970s, Barnes killed the story suggesting that President Bush received preferential treatment to get in the Texas Air National Guard. Barnes, like Sanchez, was a conservative Democrat from an earlier Texas era.
Also, Sanchez sued the Laredo newspaper for libel over a Tesoro Savings and Loan story. Sanchez lost the libel suit because the Laredo newspaper never made allegations that Sanchez had any knowledge of money laundering. In fact, the jury made a finding of fact that Sanchez and noone in his family knew of any wrongdoing.
Holden Magroin is, however, making the allegations that the Laredo newspaper never did.