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  In Senate race, Democratic rivals hope this is Gene Kelly's last dance
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Last EditedMonsieur  Jan 02, 2009 10:32am
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MediaNewspaper - Dallas Morning News
News DateSunday, March 2, 2008 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAUSTIN – Two Democrats have spent many weeks crisscrossing Texas to win their party's nod for U.S. Senate.

But as exhausted candidates Rick Noriega and Ray McMurrey stumble toward Tuesday's finish line, they and party leaders again will mull the two most dreaded words in Texas Democratic politics: Gene Kelly.

Over the past two decades, Mr. Kelly, 81, a gadfly who barely campaigns, has won almost 9 million votes in 14 contests. His critics attribute his success to being sometimes mistaken for the movie star who died in 1996. And now, they fear he'll drag Mr. Noriega, the likely nominee, into a costly and distracting runoff.

Though he's never been elected to office, Eugene "Gene" Kelly of Universal City, near San Antonio, has been the Democratic Party's nominee for statewide office three times. On two other occasions, he forced the party establishment's favored candidate into unwelcome and costly primary runoffs.
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