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DeLay’s [TX-22] Seat Up for Grabs, Texas Republicans Will Meet to Weigh Write-Ins
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 16, 2006 10:57pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, August 17, 2006 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Published: August 16, 2006
SUGAR LAND, Tex., Aug. 15 — With dwindling hopes of keeping Tom DeLay’s longtime House seat from falling to a Democrat in November, Texas Republicans on Tuesday called an urgent meeting for Thursday to exercise their only option: agreeing on a write-in candidate.
But that slender prospect — no such write-in campaign has succeeded in the state — seemed to suffer a blow when a leading candidate facing party opposition disparaged the meeting, saying “that may have worked in Moscow,” and vowed to keep running even if it meant two Republican write-in candidates.
“I’m in the race and I’m in it to win,” said the candidate, David G. Wallace, the part-time mayor of this booming Houston suburb named for its onetime Imperial sugar factory. He said he might be too busy campaigning to attend the meeting.
But Mr. Wallace, 45, a businessman and an investor in partnership for a time with Mark Thatcher, son of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has detractors, including his City Hall predecessor, Dean A. Hrbacek, a lawyer whom Mr. Wallace defeated in 2002. |
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