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San Antonio Current - Bexar Met’s secret soldiers
Guerra then quoted LULAC National Legal Advisor Luis Vera, who threatened to sue the state if the bill passed. A week later Vera put that threat on paper, two pages of his LULAC letterhead with the signatures of LULAC’s National President Rosa Rosales and Texas State Director Roger Rocha, and sent it to the Texas Senate.
The twist: As of May 4, Rios and Vera were working for the Bexar Metropolitan Water District.
San Antonio Current - Bexar Met’s secret soldiers
But the bill didn’t pass, and if another Express-News columnist, Jaime Castillo, is to be trusted, a potential costly Voting Rights Act suit was the object of the legislature’s reluctance, particularly Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst’s.
You know, this is the kind of thing that I can imagine people sitting around and talking about but to actually implement such a scheme does a lot to explain Dick Cheney.
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