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  • Self-imposed exile proving costly for 11

    08/27/2003 5:07:54 AM PDT · by Arrowhead1952 · 27 replies · 183+ views
    ASSOCIATED PRESS (Reported in the Austin American Statesman) ^ | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 | By Lisa Falkenberg
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — State Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos of Austin passes up lunch at the Hilton for a $6 chili dog with sauerkraut. Sen. Eliot Shapleigh has asked his El Paso law partners to take on his clients. And Sen. Leticia Van de Putte took out a loan on her life insurance policy to make up for lost wages. In their 30 days of self-imposed exile, the 11 Texas Democrats who fled the state to block a vote on congressional redistricting have found their own ways of bearing the mounting costs of their political battle. Van de Putte, a San Antonio...