Operatives gear up for below-the-belt sucker punches – CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sucker punches and below-the-belts can be expected as we enter the slugfest season of political attack ads. They’re already taking off the gloves for what promises to be nasty 2008 campaigns that use the newfound enormous strength and reach of the Web.
“If I’m [...]

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Until Bonilla became desperate last monday I wasn’t thinking there was a snowballs chance in hell that Ciro would pull this out. I was hoping he would but I have gotten very used to being disappointed in Texas politics. I try to understand why people in San Antonio and Texas, good hard-working people who are [...]

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ySA.com: Politics
He also faulted Rodríguez for taking $250 from Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was later convicted of conducting illegal business transactions with Libya. Left unsaid was that Alamoudi’s check came years before he was investigated and that Rodríguez was one of nine congressmen he sent money to, a list that also included Lee Hamilton, later named [...]

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Unless you’re Henry Bonilla. It looks like Bonilla is going to see if the 9/11 Terrorism card is good for at least one more election. This is a sign of desparation poor judgement.
Kudos to the San Antonio Express News that actually followed up on Bonilla’s claims. So far, all other media sources reported that the [...]

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Please, please, go read this whole article. It is worth the 5 minutes it will take.
MySA.com: Politics
Bonilla hits Rodriguez on terrorism matters
The “dangerous judgment” Bonilla attributed to Rodriguez was primarily his support for legislation that would have eliminated the use of secret evidence to deport or deny benefits to any undocumented immigrant. Bonilla’s attack put [...]

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TIME.com: The Scariest Guy in Town — Dec. 4, 2006 — Page 1:
As the new chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, Waxman will have free rein to investigate, as he puts it, “everything that the government is involved with.” And the funny thing is, Waxman can thank the Republicans for the unique set of [...]

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The attack ads are out. I figured now would be a good time to put up the positions that each candidate has taken on important issues. Sadly, I can only give you Ciro Rodriguez’s positions because it seems Henry Bonilla has decided not to answer.
Ciro Rodriguez
This is the statement you will find about Henry Bonilla
REPRESENTATIVE [...]

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MySA.com: Bonilla has benefited greatly from his loyalty to Tom DeLay
Bonilla also became a trusted and loyal soldier for DeLay, and in 1999 was made head of American Dream PAC, whose mission, he said, was “to give significant, direct financial assistance to first-rate minority GOP candidates.”
Yes, that is the American Dream PAC that Techdigger wrote [...]

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Caller.com: Local News
Bogus flyers direct voters in heavily Democratic Precinct 73 to wrong voting place
By Jamie Powell/Caller-Times
November 7, 2006
Some residents in Voter Precinct 73 on the Westside found flyers on their doors or in their mailboxes Monday directing them to vote at Precinct 83, H-E-B Tennis Center instead of Fannin Elementary.
Who does this? I just [...]

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DeLay legacy may have helped GOP empire fall | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
How the hammer fell on his own party
The iron hand of Tom DeLay built a GOP empire — and may have contributed its undoing
WASHINGTON – The legacy of the once powerful Republican Tom DeLay of Sugar Land cast a long shadow over last [...]

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