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SAN ANTONIO -- A tornado of media coverage has descended on the race for Texas's 20th Congressional District, training its full might and fury on a divorced San Antonio marriage counselor with no staff, no experience in electoral politics and a campaign war chest of $150. "I do everything myself," said Becky Whetstone, who has declared her candidacy as an independent aiming to unseat Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, the Democratic incumbent who happens to be her ex-husband. No matter that Whetstone, 45, a former advice columnist, does not have a chance of winning the race, according to political analysts here. What...

THE former wife of a United States congressman has announced she is to stand against him in the next election - so voters can learn "who he really is". Following a bitter divorce from her husband, Charles Gonzalez, Becky Whetstone has filed papers stating that she is to run for Congress in San Antonio as an independent, in the hope of taking the 20th district seat from her ex-husband, a Democrat. Ms Whetstone said: "I believe the district doesn’t know Charlie very well, and once they learn who he really is, they will not want him to represent their interests...