Election report from Houston

[Frances Morey]

Connie,
I met Jim Sharp (no relation to Sharps-town) at Wendler's memorial whom I had known back in our young activist days here in Austin. He is running for a Judge slot in Houston against a woman Republican with stroooong conservative credentials. He told me that virtually all levels of the courts in Texas had become made up by appointment into unanimous Republican strongholds. It was a shocking list, the courts he recounted as made up of Republicans across the board. I cannot repeat the litany but he assured me that it was ALL the courts in Texas.
Call him, tell him I enthusiastically endorsed him to you, and pledge your support if you are at all inclined to help.
Frances

 --- On Thu 03/11, Connie Clark < connie_3c@yahoo.com > wrote:
From: Connie Clark [mailto: connie_3c@yahoo.com]
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:18:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Election report from Houston

<DIV><STRONG><EM>Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com></EM></STRONG> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Good news that Doggett won the Democratic nomination <BR>yesterday and won big.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>Alas, my congressman, also on the hit-list, did not make it.  A black won (Al Green, formerly something in the NAACP).  My precinct was redistricted out of Chris Bell's Congressional District, so I could not vote for him, and I heard that the race was devisive and racial in tone.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ron Wilson, former aid to Mickey Leland, and State Rep for 27 years, lost his primary bid.  He was the A-A Democrat that did not join the redistricting shuffle to Ok and NM, saying that the Repubs have it anyway, so why fight them, and we'll get more black representation.  His constituency was really pissed at him.  Maybe it had something to do with his Lamborghini.</DIV>
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<DIV>Another note:  36% of the delegates to our precinct convention signed in for Kucinich, the rest were Kerry.  I was surprised that my activist neighbors were so liberal.</DIV>
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<DIV>Connie</DIV>
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