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Stenholm to attend Plainview fiesta U.S. Rep. Charlie Stenholm, D-Abilene, will be in Plainview on Sunday for Fiesta Campesina, a festival celebrating and honoring the hard work of laborers. The fiesta will be from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Broadway Park on the south side of Plainview. The free event will have Mexican food, ice cream, traditional Latino music and polka dancing. U.S. Reps. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, and Ruben Hinojosa, D-Mercedes, will join Stenholm to speak about education, family values and rural needs. The music group "Elida Reyna y su groupo Avante" and other local bands will provide...

Expert calls split in Bonilla's district map racial discrimination AUSTIN (AP) — Hispanics were cut from U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla's district with "racially discriminatory in tent" to ensure re-election of the Republican who has not fared well with Latino voters, an expert testified Tuesday during the federal redistricting trial. The map of new congressional districts approved by the Legislature this year re designed District 23 in South Texas and others in an at tempt to put more Repub licans in Congress. Democrats and minority groups are challenging the new map in court. Bonilla has held the District 23 seat for...

Bonilla to lose portion of Webb Times Staff Reports WASHINGTON D.C.- The redistricting battle is likely over and Congressman Henry Bonilla's 23rd district is seeing some changes. "I've become very attached to the people of the 23rd district. We work well together and have supported one an other for the past eleven years," said Bonilla. "I fought hard to keep all my constituents, but when it came down to drawing the final lines, the state legislators made a few changes." Unfortunately, the new redistricting map forces Bonilla to lose both Reagan and Upton counties. He will also lose portions of...

Top Democrats looking for potential candidates BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer According to a late March posting in the National Journal's House Race Hotline, top Democrats are looking for potential candidates to field against Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla. The Hotline, a Washington insider information source, states that Texas and D.C. Demos looking to "nix" a potential rematch between Bonilla and Laredoan Henry Cuellar for Congressional Dist. 23. Cuellar, a former Texas Secretary of State and state representative, ran a close but unsuccessful bid against Bonilla in November, garnering just under 48 percent of the vote. The Hotline blurb cites...